User talk:Dttower
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Speedy deletion of Terry King
[edit]A tag has been placed on Terry King requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}}
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February 2009
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Talk:Terry King has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. J.delanoygabsadds 02:28, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Additionally, please see this. Thank you. -- Hoary (talk) 02:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Terry King. Your edits have been automatically marked as unconstructive/possible vandalism and have been automatically reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. 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: Terry King was changed by Dttower (u) (t) replacing entire content with something else on 2009-02-07T04:00:47+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 04:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
PROD
[edit]You should only have added it to the top, not replaced the whole article. I do not have sufficient permissions to delete the article, and such a request should go through the proper channels anyway, such as PROD. Feel free to readd the {{prod}}, but do not replace the whole article with the notice. Thanks, — neuro(talk) 04:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Terry King
[edit]PLease do not delete content from articles or their talk pages simply because you don't believe that they are notable. Especially as it appears that you have a conflict of interest with this particular article. Continuing to do so can be construed as vandalism and could get you blocked.---I'm Spartacus! PoppaBalloon 00:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Reply to a comment at WikiProject Spam
[edit]76.244.71.77, you seem to imply here that you are Dttower. If you are indeed Dttower, please log in as Dttower before editing; this makes it much easier to see who is saying what.
You seem to have backed off from your claim that a poker player spammed Wikipedia, and are now saying that Terry King (the poker player) simply isn't noteworthy. Having absolutely no knowledge of or interest in poker, I can't comment; however, on Talk:Terry King I've told you what to do about your conviction.
You're also saying that you've helped literally 10 people get biographies on Wikipedia [...] and yet it gets deleted (my emphases). I don't know whether you're talking about ten or one. Anyway, if you'd name one or two worthy people whose articles were deleted, I'll take a look at the deleted articles.
I do note that on 30 December 2008 you created an article on Jacques Guilbert that read in its entirety "Jacques Guilbert", and one minute later created a similar article on Terry King, with the edit summary "Starting Page for Terry King, Photographer for reference on Demarchelier".
In particular, you name a cello-playing Terry King. If such a person merits an article, you can create it with the title Terry King (musician). If you think two or more musicians named Terry King merit articles, you can instead title it Terry King (cellist), Terry King (Australian musician), Terry King (Australian cellist), etc. If the resulting article is satisfactory, I or somebody else who's experienced in these things will make the necessary changes to the existing article on the poker-playing Terry King. -- Hoary (talk) 01:28, 8 February 2009 (UTC)