User talk:Ethancasey

Black American Racers Association

A tag has been placed on Black American Racers Association, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Black American Racers Association and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Schuym1 (talk) 02:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, as you forgot on your recent edit to Silent Thunder: Breaking Through Cultural, Racial, and Class Barriers in Motorsports. Thank you. --Ericdn (talk) 19:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not complaining about your edits and the work you are putting into the article. However, I would like to remind you to use edit summaries, as they allow other Wikipedia editors to easily identify the edits you have made. If you need any further help with this, please feel free to ask me on my talk page. --Ericdn (talk) 19:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Leonard T. Miller do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Steamroller Assault (talk) 17:38, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Silent Thunder.jpeg

A tag has been placed on File:Silent Thunder.jpeg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Silent Thunder Miller book.jpeg

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ethancasey. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Leonard T. Miller, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
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avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 17:13, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see why this comment is needed here. We may all be able to guess who Ethancasey is, but the articles he has contributed are excellent, and deserve to be here. It's not as if he's being paid to promote anything. BTW, I would recommend reading Len Miller's autobiography Allen Brown (talk) 18:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Allenbrown and Ethancasey: It is simply a default notice for people who may have personal or close professional connections to any articles to which they contribute. A Mr. Casey is featured in the article Silent Thunder: which has also been edited by User:Ethancasey, and to me looks to be overly detailed in trivial aspects of the book's development (an issue of WP:PROPORTION). I am not saying any of Ethancasey's article should be deleted, but writing from an insider's or colleague's point of view can risk violating WP:NPOV, and if a potential conflict of interest exists it's better to be clear about it so that non-affiliated editors can evaluate tone, due-weight, relevance, etc. I also disagree that the articles are "excellent", even if they are 100% true: unqualified terms like "pioneer" can be construed as puffery, or other words to watch, and several articles have vague or inconsistent citation schemes (as seen in the articles Dennis Rea, Silent Thunder, Leonard W. Miller) that make it difficult to determine where exactly certain facts come from, a requirement for verification. User:Ethancasey, please see guidance at Inline citation: using the preferred format <ref>...</ref>, for instance <ref>Alexander, Steve. "Black American Racers," Players, March 1975, pp. 71, 73-77.</ref>, immediately after a sentence or paragraph makes it clear that the preceding information can be found in that source. In this form, as long as the inline citation stays with the associated text, references will automatically be renumbered even if text is re-positioned during the dynamic process of building an encyclopedia. --Animalparty! (talk) 19:48, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free rationale for File:Racing While Black.jpg

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This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 01:00, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]