User talk:Hollanddavis

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Speedy deletion nomination of I Will Stand (album)

A tag has been placed on I Will Stand (album) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a musical recording which does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, and where the artist's article has never existed, has been deleted or is eligible for deletion itself. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for music.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Bramble claw x 21:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Healing Word

A tag has been placed on Healing Word requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a musical recording which does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, and where the artist's article has never existed, has been deleted or is eligible for deletion itself. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for music.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Accounting4Taste:talk 21:12, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Hollanddavis. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Holland Davis, 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);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work 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. Walter Görlitz (talk) 12:55, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding sources, but I don't think you're taking heeding this advice. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:11, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Hollanddavis. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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Again, welcome! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:14, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

August 2018

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), such as at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Holland_Davis, please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:20, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holland Davis, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:47, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holland Davis while logged out. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Please clarify on the deletion discussion page, if you have forgotten to login as "Hollanddavis", and have accidentally sent the message as 68.4.22.3. If it was an accident, it is okay, but it must be clarified. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:55, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for my bad edit summary

Hi

I'd like to apologize for the following bad edit summary written by me: Special:Diff/855538576/prev

I have been looking at the page about 24 hours after your edit, and was reading through the new arguments, when I noticed that all bolded words on the page suddenly said "Keep". My "delete" vote had silently been modified; someone else seemed to have put their words in my mouth, above my signature. I am a bit allergic to this, but I realize that this has likely been a misinterpretation on my part, and not bad faith by you. I should have assumed this in the first place, per Wikipedia:Assume good faith. While replacing "Delete" with "Keep" is unlikely to be a random typo, it might very well never have been intended to be a modification of someone else's words. Also, the rest of the edit (insertion and deletion of "the" inside my comment, at two different places) clearly indicates that the text editing software has displayed something wrong. The cursor might have been somewhere else, and the editor added the text to an unexpected place, intransparently for the user. This sometimes happens to me as well, but I have learned to notice when this happens, and to abort editing and reload the page in these cases. I have noticed that the "syntax highlighting" option of the editor might have something to do with this.

About the specific summary, it was wrong of me to write this, for multiple reasons:

I have been personally addressing you, something that is potentially problematic and to be avoided per WP:AVOIDYOU
I have written it from a perspective of "us"/"our", not "me"/"my", although I later noticed that only my own comment has been modified. Also, the whole "us"/"our" thing creates unnecessary animosity by implying that "you" were allegedly not a part of "us", which could be interpreted as "the community" and would then be very wrong. Of course, you are an equally important, valued part of the community.
I have been asking you about your personal motivation behind the edit, even supplying a specific allegedly possible reason, "kidding". This is wrong because the motivation is irrelevant, and comments should focus on the content, not the contributor, per Wikipedia:No personal attacks.
I have been using the word "manipulating" to describe your action, but "manipulating" is an ambiguous word that can mean "modifying" or "tamper". The only acceptable usage is "modifying". By leaving this ambiguity unsolved, I have not been assuming good faith.

I should better have written: "Please do not modify other users' comments. I assume this was an accident -- don't worry, I'll fix this." I have then actually fixed it, by restoring your comment manually.

I'm curious how the deletion discussion will end. It appears to be going into the "keep" direction stronger than I had expected. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:12, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]