User talk:Reidthaler

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Reidthaler, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Karen Seal, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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AfD nomination of Karen Seal[edit]

I have nominated Karen Seal, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karen Seal. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Guy0307 (talk) 11:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

COI[edit]

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. -Drawn Some (talk) 21:55, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Karen Seal, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Karen Seal was changed by Reidthaler (u) (t) deleting 16962 characters on 2009-05-03T21:56:30+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 21:56, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Karen Seal. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Karen Seal. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:52, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Karen Seal, you will be blocked from editing.
Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Karen Seal was changed by Reidthaler (u) (t) deleting 17655 characters on 2009-05-05T00:16:55+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 00:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you delete or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to Karen Seal, you will be blocked from editing. Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:23, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion about the Karen Seal article[edit]

There's an ongoing discussion here that you may be interested in adding some comments to. In addition, someone in the discussion suggested that you contact us via email (we have a dedicated system where screened volunteers can answer emails). As indicated in the linked discussion, we have a policy of deleting articles about people at their request in certain circumstances (famous people like Dick Cheney do not qualify, but it might be OK in your case). Cheers.--chaser - t 03:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello everyone. Reid here. I'm not the vandal, I'm the author and there have been no other contributors. If you read the passage of the article on Karen Seal, her earlier work was on reducing accidental overdosing by injection drug users. That work follows the under the rurbric of "harm reduction" which is what I'm doing by requesting that the article be deleted. As the author, I believe I do own it. Dr. Seal requested that the article be removed as it may create an impediment with her work treating disabled veterans. Thus, leaving the article posted, at this point, is in violation of the subject's request as well as may create harm. --Reidthaler

Hi, Reid. You ask if a request from her would suffice for deletion -- the only way to find out is to give it a try. You have the Contact Us link two paragraphs up -- a request from her work email would be most useful, as it would tend to establish her identity best.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 11:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I know you mean well, but you can't keep blanking the article. That is considered vandalism, even though you're attempting to do the right thing. Do you know what her particular objection to keeping the article is? Maybe it's something you can remove, leaving the rest.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 11:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Khseal.jpg[edit]

Since there is no source, I had to nominate it for deletion here. Government source is not enough. You at least need the URL as well. Guy0307 (talk) 06:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Karen Seal, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Karen Seal was changed by Reidthaler (u) (t) deleting 13554 characters on 2009-05-08T14:05:02+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 14:05, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Talk:Karen Seal. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. ^LeaveSleaves 14:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Enough with the warnings already -- an admin should block this guy, he's had enough warnings. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 14:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See here for instructions -- but be aware that a request like this does not automatically result in deletion, and deletion seems unlikely given the existing discussion on deletion that you have already contributed to. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 14:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked for a period of 3 hours from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for continued removal of material. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Nancy ^talk 14:22, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]