User talk:RALafontaine

January 2023
Hello, I'm JayBeeEll. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Ronald Castorina, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Blog posts and other self-published content is unacceptable for posting negative content on a biography of a living person -- see WP:SPS. JBL (talk) 18:50, 17 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Very Reliable Source:
 * https://frankreport.com/2023/01/09/on-point-evidence-of-judge-castorinas-perjury-in-grand-jury-proceeding/
 * Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist.
 * His work has been cited in hundreds of news outlets, like The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Sun, The Times of London, CBS Inside Edition, among many others in all five continents.
 * His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, “Scarred” by Sarah Edmonson, “The Program” by Toni Natalie, and “NXIVM. La Secta Que Sedujo al Poder en México” by Juan Alberto Vasquez.
 * Parlato has been prominently featured on HBO’s docuseries “The Vow” and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discovery’s “The Lost Women of NXIVM.” In addition, he was credited in the Starz docuseries 'Seduced' for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS.
 * Parlato appeared on the Nancy Grace Show, Beyond the Headlines with Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Oz, American Greed, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, where Parlato conducted the first-ever interview with Keith Raniere after his arrest. This was ironic, as many credit Parlato as one of the primary architects of his arrest and the cratering of the cult he founded.
 * Parlato is a consulting producer and appears in TNT's The Heiress and the Sex Cult, which premieres on May 22, 2022.
 * IMDb — Frank Parlato
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Parlato,_Jr.

RALafontaine (talk) 19:09, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I've removed the personal contact information you added above, please do not repost it.-- Ponyo bons mots 19:38, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Updates to lede without a reliable source
Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, you may be blocked from editing. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:09, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * What is your objection to Frank Parlato's reporting? RALafontaine (talk) 19:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Copying/pasting from the section above is not helpful. Please read WP:RS; two editors disagree that the source meets criteria; I suggest taking it to the reliable sources noticeboard if you wish to solicit additional feedback. In any case, it certainly doesn't belong in the WP:LEDE paragraph. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:13, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You are wrong. Plain and simple.  RALafontaine (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You are the only person objecting. The other editor backed down once they saw it was Frank Parlato as the source.  RALafontaine (talk) 19:17, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * You will be blocked if you continue to violate WP:BLP policy. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:17, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm taking this over your head. Who has authority to say that you are wrong? RALafontaine (talk) 19:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Final warning; please take it to WP:RSN
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page. It is not appropriate to make allegations of perjury in the WP:LEDE of a WP:BLP article based on primary source from a single journalist. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Click on the article. There are also:
 * Filed Court Transcripts
 * Filed Court Documents
 * Here is another source:
 * https://luthmann.substack.com/p/luthmann-files-motion-to-vacate-fake
 * This story will probably break BIG in the NY media over the next day or two. RALafontaine (talk) 19:22, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * If it does, then we can reconsider whether the material merits inclusion. Wikipedia isn't a breaking news outlet. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:23, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Editing with a conflict of interest
Hello, RALafontaine. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.-- Ponyo bons mots 19:39, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Lost Women of NXIVM (documentary) (March 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Pbritti was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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Pbritti (talk) 17:59, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 15:53, 5 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I just saw this. How do I fix it? RALafontaine (talk) 18:23, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:The Lost Women of NXIVM (documentary)
Hello, RALafontaine. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:The Lost Women of NXIVM (documentary), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 00:02, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Lost Women of NXIVM (documentary)


Hello, RALafontaine. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Lost Women of NXIVM".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 23:09, 28 September 2023 (UTC)