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 * How much money did you receive from the FBI to suppress conservatives. All this is another attack by Wikipedia to suppress conservative voices. You have articles with information regarding me. But still yet you're refused to post a page about me. Continue to promote fraudulent information about me or post content regarding me without my consent. I will have you in court for defamation and Wikipedia can expect to pay me damages. You are not going to misrepresent me. You are not going to spread false information about me. I will sue you! Additionally, if ever elected to office, I have every intent to open a congressional investigation into big tech censorship. Wikipedia just got added to that list. So you can expect a subpoena from me. Thomasdiy (talk) 01:37, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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December 2022
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 * As a financial backer of Wikipedia, I reserved the right to edit post on the platform. Wikipedia financial records will confirm that I have financial ties to Wikipedia. If Wikipedia no longer wants my support, I ask that you please refund all past donations back to my PayPal. Thank you. Thomasdiy (talk) 03:16, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_your_refund_policy? MiasmaEternal  ☎  07:13, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * As a precondition of editing on Wikipedia, you agreed to the Terms of Use of this private website, which includes abiding by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines regarding editor conduct, and that the privilege of editing is conditional on abiding by those policies.   Ravenswing     07:33, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Thomasdiy, I'll explain a few points rather than just posting links to policy pages. Backing Wikipedia financially gives a contributor no more privileges than anyone else when it comes to editing the encyclopedia. It confers no rights whatsoever, and you still have to follow the exact same policies as volunteers who have not contributed a penny. Nobody here at the encyclopedia can help with any refunds, as the volunteer community here has no control over finances. The Wikimedia Foundation handles all of that, so you'd need to contact them. Also, I see that you appear to have a grievance over not having an article about yourself published. That's down to notability policy, as unelected politicians are generally not considered notable (unless they have some other specific notability), regardless of their political affiliation. It's not censorship, and it's not because you're conservative, it's because you're unelected. Should you win an election, I expect that would propel you above the notability bar. I hope that helps. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * And to expand on what Boing! said Zebedee said, our notability guideline for politicians sets the bar a good bit higher than you've reached. Winning a state Senate seat would do it; you failed to get as much as 10% of the vote in the primary, which falls far below the threshold. Mike Steadham, who finished second place in the primary (and had nearly five times as many votes as you did), would not qualify under WP:POLITICIAN.  Vince Deeds, who won the primary, would not have qualified under WP:POLITICIAN if he hadn't gone on to win the general. Now I concede there's a strong premise being pushed by one political faction in this country that the only reason things could possibly not go your way is that they were cheated out of it somehow, but Wikipedia works through policies and guidelines, rather than by conspiracy theories or who can shout the loudest.  I also concede the way we do things isn't for everyone.   Ravenswing      12:30, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 *  Mike Steadham is a successful businessman. Who should actually have a Wikipedia page dedicated to him, not just because of his political affiliation. Wikipedia's policy is flawed. Enough said. Thomasdiy (talk) 11:27, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, Wikipedia's policies are far from perfect, especially notability policy - I think a lot of that is screwed up, myself (and I'd say the bar for politicians is probably set too high). But I think even notability policy is a lot better today than it was when I started here back in 2007. Getting it right is a (painfully slow) work in progress. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:42, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * PS: I've redacted part of your comment, as it is a violation of WP:BLP policy to accuse someone of being guilty of a crime if they have not been convicted. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:50, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * (shrugs) Meh, whatever: "successful businessmen" are a dime a hundred in every town in the world. Steadman isn't the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation; he's a local real estate developer.  You show me his Encyclopedia Britannica entry, I'll be the first to write him up for a Wikipedia article.  Enough said.   Ravenswing      05:55, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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