User talk:Swagle

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Speedy deletion nomination of GREENCulture, Inc

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A tag has been placed on GREENCulture, Inc requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. 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.

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November 2012

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at HMS New Zealand (1911), you may be blocked from editing. -gadfium 19:51, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2013

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bencherlite ^Talk 21:54, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Swagle (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I typed in nfd for acc reasons and then I deleted that after I saw that I was wrong. I hit the Save button to delete it but apparently, it did not save that I deleted that so that nfd stayed on the page and within five minutes someone deleted the nfd tag and now I am banned. It was a simple mistake in that it was not saved. I have been using wikipedia for years and never one issue. Shouldnt you guys have just emailed me nicely about this error rather than blocking me indefinitely? Please remove this error. next time i will make sure that it saves the page. thanks.

Decline reason:

With the exception of creating an article to promote your own company, adding and removing incorrect MFD tags is literally all you've done since registering an account last year. One such mistake is excusable, but repeating it twelve times over the course of six months, and doing nothing else, is disruptive. Yunshui 雲‍水 04:26, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Swagle (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Okay first of all, yes I made the GREENCulture entry. It was deleted because some guy said it was not notable. At that time I was unaware of the rules so I could not stop it from being deleted. But, you should know that the company was notable. We were a big company in ecommerce and in the green space and in fact we did more revenue that Crate and Barrel online. We were also in the Internet Retailer top 500 list for three years straight. Just type in the company name and you will see so many google listings about us. The guy who deleted it, did wikipedia a disservice. Moreover, you say that all I do is disruptive editing but how many times did the NFD tag stay on the page before I deleted it....every single time but just once I did it and it did not save. I have done a lot of work on wikihow.com but wikipedia is still very hard to understand with all the rules. I know I should be using the sandbox which I will do but there is no place that I have found that gives me all the codes on wikipedia...like nfd and acc, etc. I would like to ask the higher ups at Wikipedia to reinstate my rights to use the site. I won't do anything disruptive. It is the harsh treatment that Admins like yourself who just denied me without first asking to get any more details that has led 10% of wikipedias admins to leave the site. I ask you try to understand other peoples issue first and see that I was right in adding GREENCulture and that there was only 1 disruptive editing due to the fact that the page did not save....nothing was intentional at all.

Decline reason:

This is a rather weird unblock request. You seem to think that creating a Wikipedia account and using it almost exclusively to play around making nonsense edits is perfectly all right so long as you revert those nonsense edits quickly, and that you have been blocked only because you once failed to revert. No! Wikipedia is not a playground, and creating an account only to do such nonsense is not acceptable. Also, contrary to what you seem to think, creating an article to promote your own business is not acceptable either. In February 20011 you made one edit which may or may not have been constructive. Other than that, every single edit you have ever made other than on this talk page has been either attempting to abuse Wikipedia by using it for promotion or else pointless vandalism. There is absolutely no evidence whatever that unblocking you would lead to anything useful to Wikipedia at all. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Here's what I see...

You added "{{nfd|acc}}" to History of Mars observation and removed it a minute later, on January 8.
You added "{{nfd|acc}}" to Early naval vessels of New Zealand and removed it five minutes later, on November 19.
You added "{{nfd|acc}}" to History of Michigan State University and removed it two minutes later, on August 29.

That's just three examples - I count eight more examples of exactly the same with other articles going back to June, and two more where you added it to articles and someone else removed it. All of those additions were disruptive, not just one that you claim did not save. If you meant them to be constructive, what you will need to do is explain what you were trying to do. And you also need to listen to what you are being told about what Notability means here at Wikipedia - it has a specific meaning, and you must accept that you have to abide by it. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 04:53, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do I respond here?? Yes I did all eight of those but should have used the sandbox. And for that I'm sorry. I never did any harm except one article which didn't save. I should have been uint the sandbox but is this a reason fior an indefinite block? And yes greenculture is notable. So many other ecommerce companies just like mine are listed in Wikipedia so greenculture should have been kept in. I can give you countless of other examples. If you want to kerp it out its wikipedias loss and the communities loss. If you want to banish me forever because I didn't use the sandbox and one page didn't save properly then it's the communities loss as well.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Swagle (talk • contribs) 05:05, 28 January 2013‎

How is it the communities loss? You haven't been a productive member of the community, but a destructive one.-gadfium 05:21, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(Yes, responding here is correct - but please indent replies by using ":", "::", etc, and sign your comments with "~~~~".) OK, I don't understand what were you trying to do in all of those cases, but if it was some sort of experiment and you now accept that you should do such things in your sandbox, I'd be happy to accept that and would support unblock as far as that goes.
However, considering Greenculture, when you create an article you need to provide multiple independent reliable sources (see WP:RS) that talk about the subject in depth - and you didn't do that. Are there other similar articles that do not properly show notability? Maybe, and they should be addressed, but that is not an excuse for creating more. Please go and properly read WP:NCORP and WP:RS, and then come back and tell us that you will abide by those requirements. If you still believe that the Greenculture is notable according to those policies, there are ways we can move forward on that, and I'll be happy to help you. But you must agree to accept Wikipedia's policies, and you need to stop arguing that the version of the article you created was acceptable - it was not.
Finally, I strongly recommend you drop the confrontational "If you don't unblock me it will be your loss" approach - in my experience I have never seen that strategy work. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 05:35, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Boing. Thanks for your message. Yes, I am sorry that I did this and will only use the sandbox going forward for all tests. And yes I will abide by wp:ncorp and wp:rs rules as well. I still do believe that GREENCulture is notable so please let me know how you want me to communicate this to you so that it can be added back. And yes, I am sorry for my tone. I guess I was just very upset at the last admin who made accusations and took a very strong stance prior to first inquiring and asking questions of me. That tone led me to do that back and that was not appropriate. I do think that I will make valuable contributions to the site and am happy to have you guys watch over me on all my subsequent actions to ensure that I am doing this properly. So I would appreciate being unblocked. Also, do you know where I can find all the codes on wikipedia just NFD and ACC...Is there a central place where all those codes are listed so I can learn them all? Please let me know. Thanks so much. "Sunil"

Hi, I'm a little bit busy right now, but bear with me and I'll have a word with the blocking admin and see if they're prepared to unblock on these conditions. As for other questions, let's leave it and see how the unblock goes first. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry it's taken me a few days, but I've asked the blocking admin at User talk:Bencherlite#User:Swagle -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 05:51, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocked

With the agreement of the blocking admin, you are now unblocked. I'll start by giving you a different Welcome message in a moment, and that will have a lot of links that should help you to understand your way around Wikipedia. Please have a read over the linked pages, and feel free to ask any questions - I'll be watching this page so I'll see them. Also, please have a read of WP:NCORP which details the notability requirements for companies and organizations, and WP:RS which explains Wikipedia's requirement for reliable sources. Once you're happy with those, we can discuss the article you had deleted. Anyway, Welcome message coming up... -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 08:46, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

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Greeting

Hi, Swagle,
I just noticed that you posted a message to Boing! said Zebedee. On his Talk Page (at the top), you can see that he retired in August 2013 so he won't be responding to your request.
Good luck on finding a resolution to your problem. Nwjerseyliz (talk) 18:28, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]