User talk:Tina Chavoya Literary Agency

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Your contributed article, Modern and Contemporary African American Writers
Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Modern and Contemporary African American Writers. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - List of African-American writers. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at List of African-American writers - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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African American writers are grossly under represented on your web site, that is why I am contributing. Your assumption that somehow you've said all there needs to be said about the subject, seems a bit premature. Your invitation to the general public to contribute, now seems to be a bit doubtful. If only your understanding or desire for cultural representation is allowed, then just come out and say so. I'll be glad to find a more progressive web site.


 * The request for speedy deletion has been made not because the subject was of no importance but because an other article already exist about the subject. You are welcome to contribute to the existing article. -- Stroppolo talk 20:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Username block
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please create a new account with a username that represents only you. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may ask for a review of this username block by adding the text below this message. Thank you. I am sorry to block your account; your contributions will be welcome and this is in no sense an attempt to silence you, but it is an important principle of Wikipedia that accounts must represent individuals, and so usernames which seem to represent groups or organizations are not allowed. You are welcome to make a new account representing only you. However, if you work for the Tina Chavoya Literary Agency, please understand that any editing about the agency's clients would constitute a WP:Conflict of Interest, and before making any such edits you should read that guideline and the one on WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest: Wikipedia is not to be used for promotion of any kind. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:02, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I have moved the "hangon" tag to the article, and copied your comment above and the reply to the article talk page so that the admin who looks at it will see them. JohnCD (talk) 21:14, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You can still edit this talk page, and I will watch it; if you have any questions, ask them below. JohnCD (talk) 21:25, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

This issue is not a reason to delete my article. If that were the case more than half of your existing articles on Wikipedia violate that rule. Most of the articles I've looked at on Wikipedia reference or overlap. The others are obvious advertisements in disguise as articles, i.e., Ford, Toyota, Nikon, etc.

No. This looks like there is objection based on the fact that my article is about an under represented class and your attempts to either control the dialogue or surpress free speech. You have countless articles on similar subjects on Wikipedia, but you seem to be saying, or trying to limit contributing or inclusive dialogue about African Americans, while giving a free hand to "white" Americanisms that you seem happy to overlook.

My article is my article. The fact that you can find other articles that address a similar subject, justifies relevance, not to the contrary. Otherwise why have more than one article about any given subject, as you most obviously do?

For example: An article on automobiles would cause any other article about cars, to be rejected, by your assertions. But that is not the case on Wikipedia!

Your flawed logic towards limiting articles on African American content, flies in the face of all your other articles. I viewed several articles you have on "racism". They all have overlap, some are out and out offensive, but you haven't deleted them, or blocked the author!

Your actions are racist! And discriminatory!

What you are actively engaged in is censorship and a violation of free speech!

Call it what you want, but when you start telling me where I should contribute and what I should contribute, that is the exact definition of censorship!

There exist enough evidence of censorship an inequality, for someone or group to challenge Wikipedia in court.

An as to who I am, it doesn't say anybody's name other than mine. Again, discrimination!


 * I have moved this down - it is easiest to keep track of conversations if new contributions are added at the bottom. I have also copied it all to the article talk page, and will leave to another admin, who will read it, the task of deciding on the speedy deletion request. No time for more tonight. JohnCD (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2010 (UTC)