User talk:BrianRiley

Clovis High School (Clovis, California)

Hi, you shouldn't make lists of people who don't have articles on Wikipedia. Start the Wikipedia article and make sure they pass WP:BIO and WP:RS. AnyPerson (talk) 02:48, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Cooper Middle School (California) for deletion

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Hello, BrianRiley! I welcome a lot of new school page authors to Wikipedia, and I would like to thank you for your contribution. Unfortunately, the page you created, at Cooper Middle School (California), is a primary (elementary) school or a middle school and as such it does not meet Wikipedia requirements at school page guidelines, and will soon be merged to the page about itsschool district.

I hope you'll continue to contribute to school articles, so you'll want to read up on Your First Article and check out:

If you are stuck, you can ask a question on the school project talk page or you can even ask me on my talk page. I hope you'll stay around and even help out on some other school project tasks. Happy editing! Kudpung (talk) 03:17, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Olvera and Matlosz

If articles by these Fresno Bee writers discuss Cooper Middle School in depth, then please provide lengthy quotations from the article to show that. Even if you can demonstrate that these articles discuss the school in depth, we still have the problem that they were published in the same newspaper, and we need multiple independent sources discussing the topic in depth. Personally, I don't consider articles in a single newspaper to be multiple sources. I have a high threshold for going against our usual practice of not creating articles about primary and middle schools. Please disclose any personal involvement you may have, per WP:COI. Thank you. Cullen328 (talk) 16:22, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandalism

Please stop vandalizing Wikipedia or you may be blocked from editing privileges. List of stage names only applies to perfomers, not anyone who has changed their names. Quis separabit? 22:33, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: Why on earth are you so quick on the draw to criticize so harshly? It was a simple oversight. I thought it applied to anyone. Please exercise more restraint in your criticism. BrianRiley (talk) 22:39, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

B******t, it was not a simple oversight twice in a row. And now you are vandalizing other pages (see [1]). I am reporting you now. Quis separabit? 22:46, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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BrianRiley (talk) 04:41, 24 April 2018 (UTC)I did give the KCSM-FM radio station as a reference, and that is a source that is "made available to the public in some form." You could have simply called them to verify that they information was broadcast.[reply]

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