User talk:Pspark

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Dante's
Hello, I see you need some introduction to some Wikipedia guidelines and policies. First, you need to read WP:OWN to understand that any editor can edit pretty much any article. Then follow that with WP:CIVIL so you can better interact with other editors. Then in regards to specifically Dante's you need to read Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline so that you can understand the need for you to not edit that article. Then something else that you will want from other editors is to read company notability guidelines, since as it is now the article does not meet those guidelines and is subject to being deleted. Please read before you respond with we've won awards, that is not what notability is. The sources currently (other than the AOL award for 2007) do not meet the requirments for reliable sources, and the one that does is not an indepth coverage of the place to meet the notability requirments. If you have any questions, let me know or talk to an adminastrator about these policies and guidelines. Happy editing. Aboutmovies 04:44, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Below copied from Katr67's talk page

dante's
You are not the wikipolice and your behavior is beginning to border upon that of a self-appointed dilettante.

I was going to refrain from commenting to you, but your over-editing of the page forces my hand. Frank first informed me of your harassment months ago. The hoax tag can stay. The "media" articles did need to go. However, deleting the accolades section when there are legitimate links to AOL went too far. This is not spam. It is proof of an award. Any search of the Willamette Week archives will confirm our awards in the previous years. Or, you could just get up from behind your computer, come down to the bar and see the awards for yourself.

You might also want to take a little trip down to the Oregon Historical Society to confirm my research on the building, that way we can remove the original research tag.

That being said, if you continue to make condescending comments in the talk section, remove valid information, or otherwise engage in behavior that is contrary to wikipedia's policies, I will report you.

Focus your efforts on other Oregon-related topics, since you are the self-appointed "expert" in these matters. I'm sure there are bigger fish to fry.

Good day. I consider the matter closed and am happy with the entry as it now stands.

PP —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pspark (talk • contribs) 03:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC).


 * Hi Paul~


 * Wow. Frank must be pretty thin-skinned if he considers these edits: here, here, and here, and here (the sum total of my interaction with him), besides this cryptic entry on my talk page and subsequent conversation: on my and his talk page as "harassment".


 * It happens that I *am* a dilettante. Aren't you? And aren't all dilettantes self-appointed?


 * I felt the "accolades" section was unencyclopedic. I never said it was spam, and I never said they weren't real awards. But a section like that does begin to make the article about your bar look like an advertisement, and wikipedia isn't here to provide free advertising space. I didn't place the original research tag, but before you provided your detailed and apparently well-researched history section, the article really was mostly nonsense, and you apparently agree since you say the hoax tag can stay.


 * Can you please point out which wikipedia policies I have violated? And I'm confused--I never made *any* comments in the talk section. You must mean the edit summaries? Feel free to mention my actions at the administrator's noticeboard. Or else check out these other ways to work out article disputes: request for comment, mediation, or arbitration.


 * You seem pretty condescending yourself. I never said I was an "expert" about anything. I think this can be worked out. Usually these things are done on the article's talk page. In the meantime, you really need to read about ownership of articles (it doesn't really matter if *you* are pleased with how the article is now, because it's not *your* article--like I told Frank, you need to be prepared to have your work mercilessly edited), what wikipedia is not (including an advertising medium for your club) and conflict of interest. Another thing we like around here is civility. Try it :) Some people prefer the essay entitled Don't Be a Dick. Katr67 05:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

The article is fine the way it is. I am going to scan the images from the Oregon Historical Society and some of our many awards to satisfy Kyle and you and walk away from this mess, rather than get into another flame war which will inevitably end in a "let's agree to disagree" situation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pspark (talk • contribs) 19:09, April 29, 2007


 * Before you scan and upload, you might want to make sure you received approval from the copyright holders of the images to post them online. Owning a copy of a picture only gives you the right to possess that picture, reproduction and distribution is a different stick in the "bundle of sticks" that is property law. Aboutmovies 19:28, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. These are public records that I am uploading (anyone can access them). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pspark (talk • contribs) 19:36, April 29, 2007

This isn't exactly a flame war
Hi, don't forget to sign your posts with 4 tildes ( ~ ). I'll cop to being uncivil if you will. If you were falsely accused of harassment and threatened with being reported when you're merely pointing out established wikipolicy, wouldn't it bother you? Your additions to Dante's are interesting and like I said, appear to be well-researched. If the whole article were up to that standard, we'd be in business. I still disagree about the inclusion of the "accolades" section, but I'll leave it to the other editors to decide if it should stay. I will gently point out again, however, that it really doesn't matter whether you think the article is fine, that's up to community consensus. Katr67 21:18, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Phonebook1930dantes.jpg
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November 2019
Hello Pspark. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Star Theater (Portland, Oregon), but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Pspark. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. ''This: edit which is a venue owned by Frank Faillace and your talk page contribution at Dante's in the past suggests you personally known Frank. '' Graywalls (talk) 06:06, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Dantesportland.jpg


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