User talk:Patrick K. McDonnell Sr.

July 2011
Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses. Wikipedia is not the "Yellow Pages". If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets, such as Wikia's Yellowikis. Thank you. dalahäst (talk) 23:50, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Since you seem to have not noticed (or perhaps misunderstood) this note, I thought I should inform you that your userpage violates one of Wikipedia's community guidelines—specifically, promotional material in user pages and extensive discussion not related to Wikipedia are not allowed, per policy. If you do not rewrite your user page, it may be nominated for deletion in accordance with those policies. dalahäst (talk) 02:47, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Patrick K. McDonnell Sr.
User:Patrick K. McDonnell Sr., a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Patrick K. McDonnell Sr. and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:Patrick K. McDonnell Sr. during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. dalahäst (talk) 03:30, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Re. your comments at the MfD page
I'd like to clear up some of the things about your userpage MfD that seem to be a bit confusing to you.


 * I think User:Dalahäst|dalahäst] should be more patient with new members of the community.

Per the policy on this, 'do not bite the newcomers', I do try to be patient with everyone, particularly new users. I don't think there is anything impatient about informing users of policy through the standardized warning templates and, subsequently a personally-written message. The MfD nomination came only after you did nothing to change your userpage.


 * When you deleted my wiki page you started a fight.

I didn't delete your page. It is still there; you can still edit it all you like. Moreover, Wikipedia is not a place to fight—if it looks like I have some sort of grudge against you, you can be assured that I do not. I'm simply proposing that your user page be deleted as a violation of Wikipedia's guidelines.


 * I just want a WIKI page. This guy is harassing.

I understand that you'd like to have a page on Wikipedia. However, per Wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest, you cannot simply create an article about yourself. Moreover, your user page is the wrong place for any sort of lengthy, non-wiki-related writing, including promotional text. As I mentioned above, this is not an effort to fight with or harrass you. Reading the policy pages I linked here and on your talk page should help, too. dalahäst (talk) 04:34, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello Patrick, I've just closed the MfD discussion and deleted your userpage; I'm really sorry, but, under Wikipedia's rules, a userpage may contain some biographical information about the user; however, usually this information should be brief and relevant to the purpose of building an encyclopedia together. Please, do not let this get you down; your contributions are still more than welcome. If you need anything, please feel free to ping me on my talk page. Cheers. Salvio  Let's talk about it! 10:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

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Welcome!

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