User talk:Writingasaghost

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your submission at Articles for creation
Thank you for submitting an article to Wikipedia. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia&. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article. You can resubmit it (by adding the text to the top of the article) when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. Bsherr (talk) 18:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
Ahmed Bedier, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. Thank you for helping Wikipedia!  Chzz  ► 06:54, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation
Thank you for submitting an article to Wikipedia. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia&. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article. You can resubmit it (by adding the text to the top of the article) when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. Bsherr (talk) 06:54, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Le Zebre Book Cover, Philip Schram.jpg
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Cafe Barbera (January 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MatthewVanitas was:

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:25, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cafe Barbera (January 7)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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SwisterTwister  talk  05:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cafe Barbera has been accepted
 Cafe Barbera, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! North America1000 00:38, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Barbera Caffe Co. (February 2)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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LaMona (talk) 00:37, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Cafe Barbera
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Cafe Barbera
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Barbera Caffe Co. (February 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Barbera Caffe Co. and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Barbera_Caffe_Co. Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SwisterTwister&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Barbera_Caffe_Co. reviewer's talk page].
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SwisterTwister  talk  20:58, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Barbera Coffee Company
Hello Writingasaghost,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Barbera Coffee Company for deletion, because it seems to be an article that was previously deleted by a consensus decision.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. — swpb T 17:21, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Barbera Caffe Co. has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Barbera Caffe Co.. Thanks! SwisterTwister  talk  04:31, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

If I could figure out how to delete the draft, I would. Instructions for how to do things on Wikipedia are very confusing.Writingasaghost (talk) 03:41, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
for (talk)  08:06, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm a simple writer, and I've never heard of ConteRaff. You'll find I haven't been very active on Wikipedia, because it's not the main type of writing I do. However, once in a while I work with a company who wants a Wikipedia page that is written properly. My account has not been hijacked, and I only have one account. I've had it since maybe 2009, and you'll see almost no activity on it. In fact, I'm not even sure I'm doing this "talk" thing right. Writingasaghost (talk) 03:48, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Barbera Coffee Company


A tag has been placed on Barbera Coffee Company, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate,. Under the specified criteria, where a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. for (talk)  13:06, 8 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I've also nominated Cafe Barbera for deletion. Both articles are nominated under G4 (an article that's been discussed and deleted before under whatever title) and G5 (created by a sockpuppet or meatpuppet of a blocked user). The discussion for the G4 is at Articles for deletion/Barbera Caffè, and your admission of being a meatpuppet is at Sockpuppet investigations/ConteRaff. for (talk)  13:17, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Barbera Caffe Logo.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Barbera Caffe Logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:27, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I'm currently trying to resolve the issue with the page that was deleted.Writingasaghost (talk) 19:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

July 2016
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your user subpage at User:Writingasaghost may not meet Wikipedia's user page guideline. If you believe that your user page does not violate our guideline, please leave a note on this page. Alternatively you may add  to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it, or you can simply edit the page so that it meets Wikipedia's user page guideline. Thank you.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:24, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm swirling in circles here. I click on the link and went somewhere else. Please let me build my page. I see no way to save into a temporary place, and I've been in chat trying to figure out how to navigate this. Writingasaghost (talk) 03:37, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Your recent postings...
I note that you object to being called a meatpuppet and claim "I've never heard of ConteRaff". I'm sure ConteRaff is not their name in real life, just as Writingasaghost is not yours. The fact is that ConteRaff has been trying for over a year to publicise the Barbera coffee businesses and has hidden behind multiple article names and multiple usernames in order to do that. ConteRaff has been blocked as a result of that activity.

Your activity, despite your claim "I've never heard of ConteRaff", shows you're acting on their behalf to evade the blocks placed on them. Call it meatpuppetry or being a cat's paw, you're their pair of hands on a keyboard.

In your initial response you claimed, "I'm a simple writer", then later acknowledge paid-editing. If you sell your expertise you can't then claim a lack of expertise and expect to have that claim taken seriously. You've been paid to spam wikipedia. Enjoy the cash because you're not getting my sympathy.for (talk)  07:01, 12 July 2016 (UTC)


 * My deepest apologies. I was speaking as someone who was without knowledge. The egg deserves to be in my face.


 * I do have a lack of expertise when it comes to Wikipedia, or I would never have been as open as I have been. My only claim to expertise here or with any of the people I have worked for in developing their Wikipedia pages was as a writer who has done some academic writing. I never claimed to be a Wikipedia expert. On each page, I did my best to follow the guidance offered when the article was rejected. I was sincerely doing my best to write a high-quality article.


 * I had no idea I was being paid to spam Wikipedia. I admit I am naive. I spent half of my adult life in the third world. However, I still contend that I demanded of the two Barbera employees who reached out to me what the other editors demanded of me--adequate proof of the company's notoriety.


 * If you keep the pages down, I will be obligated to return the money, which wasn't all that much, yet will cause me considerable hardship. I'm not one of those people who takes a client's money and laughs my way to the bank. I don't expect your sympathy. I only ask you to consider that a person can do the wrong thing due to ignorance, with no malice intended. I'm totally humiliated.Writingasaghost (talk) 13:43, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

In the two years since I last looked at this page, I realize now what a difference there is between being a writer and being a Wikipedia editor. One of the people who I worked with asked me to help with updating their Wikipedia page. I am a writer, not a wikipedia editor. As such, anything new I learn wows me. So from this point forward, I will attempt to use the talk page for any changes I recommend for any page I touch. COI is inherent in anything I am interested in, whether I'm paid or not.Writingasaghost (talk) 22:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)