User talk:Rayring

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Hello, Ray Ring, I noticed on your article that I linked, that you have been editing the page, and have added approximently 7 megabytes of “information” to the page. Besides adding the picture of yourself, the additions that you’ve made to your page are not helpful, and are in violation of COI and Adverts. Please stop adding promotional text to your article, or it will risk deletion. Roasted (talk) 16:17, 4 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello Roastedbeanz1 -- Thank you for your vigilance checking Wikipedia sites. I've been using Wikipedia as a reference source for decades in my journalism research, and I donate small amounts, hoping Wikipedia will survive the AI threat -- basically I love Wikipedia. ... I don't know why you think my Wikipedia page violates the advertising policy. I've listed my published novels and reviews, and my journalism awards, no different than Taylor Swift's page listing her songs and her awards and critics' reactions, and literary novelist Barbara Kingsolver's page listing her books and awards and praise from reviewers. I have links to some of the sources, including reviews and awards. Please understand, I'm 74 years old, so much my life and my work occurred before the Internet became a utility, so that much is not accessxible online. My university student experiences, for instance, include: 1966-1968 Pennsylvania State University, 1968-1969 Southern Illinois University, 1969-1970 University of Illinois (where I got expelled for demonstrating against the Vietnam War). I have some university transcripts in a storage box, so I guess I could scan in portions of transcripts, post them on my website -- www.rayring.com -- and link my Wikipedia page to the scans on my website, but I'm not sure that's worth the effort. My rayring.com website already has a scan of a 1970s newspaper photo of me working as a firefighter, and a scan of a 1970s snapshot of me on a bulldozer at the University of Colorado Mountain Research Station, so I guess I can link my Wikipedia page to those scans, for instance. I'm the only contributor to my Wikipedia page, so far, because I'm a relatively obscure one-person operation, no staff, no publicist etc. Open to your further thoughts, thanks again -- Ray in Tucson Rayring (talk) 20:08, 4 February 2024 (UTC)