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Wocu - World Currency Unit
Hi I blanked the page as I had made a duplicate due to inexperience. I believe there should only be one article and that it should be called Wocu. I am only now getting the hang of wikipedia editing but want to get things right. Please delete Wocu - World Currency Unit accordingly. -- Babababababaj (talk) 1.45, 13 Apr 2010 CET
GPS StoryTeller
Thanks for your time. I do not meandsfasdafsdf for the article on GPS StoryTeller to feel like promotion or spam, and I agree it can be written better. I recently saw the Article on AudioConexus which made me feel that similarly GPS StoryTeller should be accounted for in the history of this new medium.
Jeff
TA
Because I'd moved it from Transmedia Activism to Transmedia activism. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
- So I see. That was briefly disorienting -- only too mildly and not long enough to qualify as fun :) -- Rrburke (talk) 00:42, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Jack Frye TWA Wiki page
I am requesting informal clarification at this time.
This is in regard to what Wiki considers a "personal website", yet what the general public may consider an official website. My website link has been removed from the Jack Frye page, (www.sedonalegendhelenfrye.com) yet I do not understand. As example: Jack Frye's business partner, (Paul E. Richter TWA) wiki, has three entries on it added by his daughter of websites that are without a doubt "personal websites" and always have been. I am very confused and use this site as an example, because I am familar with its history. I also notice that nearly all editing on the Paul Richter Wiki site is done by the family (daughter- Ruth Richter- Av8er). Isn't this kind of like the fox guarding the hen house? Why can this "public editor" add personal websites for herself, (one of which I might add I originally built for her originally) and yet, my website, which is the only one out there for Jack Frye is continually deleted? This sounds quite discriminatory to me. I thought wiki was supposed to be above all manipulation and bias??
Please let me say I do not need wiki driving anything to my website. I have provided the website Sedona Legend Helen Frye (totally non-profit) at my own expense for 8 years. It does not generate a single penny, but does cost me many dollars to maintain it. I do it because Jack deserves it and his family has endorsed my efforts. I do not care who links to it as the site drives itself. But would think that a wiki Jack Frye page should be referenced to it.
Is it then considered "O.K." for me to start going through all wiki pages I am interested in and deleting all personal website links? Because it seems to me that this is something that is far from being monitored by wiki staff.
I look forward to your response. RR Sedona Legend
RR (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Victor Balykin
Hello. I did not see the tone/content as being promotional. I did clean out the Augean stables and BLP-ProD. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 21:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, Dlohcierekim. Thanks for your note. If you'll permit me to speak candidly, I never understand this kind of decline on a speedy request for this kind of spam autobiography: articles like this are inherently promotional because, irrespective of their content, their purpose is to enhance the prestige, public profile or notoriety of their subject by creating an article about it on a top ten website, namely Misplaced Pages. If that's not promotion, then there isn't any such thing and we should just throw in the towel and resign ourselves to being a vanity press instead of an encyclopedia. -- Rrburke (talk) 21:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- We must look beyond intent to content. Had you not figured out where the article came from, would you have felt it to be promotional? And are we not free to remove anything remotely promotional? If the subject turns out to be notable, are we not benefited by the article? And if he turns out to be not-notable, we can certainly proceed with deletion via ProD or AFD? We must not be in a hurry to delete on principle. The article is tagged as a BLP-Prod. It will be sourced or it will go. And AFD is right around the corner. Ironically, that can be the surest way of closing a loophole in CSD. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 21:50, 30 November 2010 (UTC)