User talk:.Toon

Speedy deletion nomination of L. Dee Fink

Hello .Toon,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged L. Dee Fink for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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. Foysol3195 (talk) 14:32, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of L. Dee Fink

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A tag has been placed on L. Dee Fink, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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. Uncle Roy (talk) 14:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for message. I deleted your article because

• it did not provide adequate independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to her(?), press releases, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what she claims or interviewing her. Most of your text was unreferenced or referenced to sources affiliated to her or otherwise failing as independent third party sources.
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. So keen are you to promote her and her work that you don't tell us Fink's sex (I've guessed female from the name), nationality, or whether she has any qualifications.

• Much of the text is promotional, but a couple of examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: improving the results of university teachers and students... become better as teachers
• You also bolded the title of her book, in case we missed it and provided links to sites affiliated to her. There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. That's particularly the case when they are spamlinks.

I don't know if you plan to recreate the article, but if you do, you will need to check that she actually meets the notability criteria linked above, if she doesn't, you are wasting your time. Looking at your editing pattern, it's clear that you are either actually her, editing on her behalf, or otherwise closely associated. If you write anything about her, before doing so you must declare a conflict of interest. If you are being reimbursed directly or indirectly for your edits on her behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by her, her company or her publisher, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:.Toon. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=.Toon|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared

I'll shortly recreate the page here. Please remove what you need as soon as possible, since I won't host the text for long.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:12, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Not having visited my 'Talk' page for a while, I have to say it looks real bad. So I probably need to specify I was neither promoting nor being paid, and I replied to the harsh criticism on talk to me?, also promised not to do it again (write about something I really liked myself, considered notable, and wanted others to know about). --.Toon (talk) 14:24, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. even so, it's quite an honour being suspected of being '... either actually her, ...' ('him', in fact) - especially for a non-native speaker of English. Once again, I'm sorry. --.Toon (talk) 14:24, 5 November 2021 (UTC)