User talk:TOITevents
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May 2013
[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Gran Fondo, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Your article for creation was declined at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gran Fondo (2). Previously the same thing was declined at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gran Fondo. We have an article on this: Cyclosportive. Gran Fondo is nothing more than an Italian word for Cyclosportive. If you want to change this, seek consensus by discussing at Talk:Cyclosportive. Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:13, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
- Wikipedia doesn't create two different articles for the same thing just because it's called cyclosportive in French and gran fondo in Italian. If you want to move Cyclosportive to Gran fondo, go to Talk:Cyclosportive and suggest why gran fondo should be favored over cyclosportive. But first, you need a new user name; a user name the same as your organization, TOIT Events, is not allowed. Read Wikipedia:Username policy. And since you are obviously a promoter of gran fondos, please read and understand Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:22, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. --Orange Mike | Talk 04:06, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
{{unblock-spamun|cyclefun|I apologize if my posts offended anyone. That was definitely never my intention. I am new to wikipedia and learning my way around this format. I have read the how to section, but clearly misunderstood what I was supposed to do. I am not trying to promote or spam anything. I found that when I was googling the term Gran Fondo on the internet, nothing popped up directly to Wikipedia. As the term is far more widely used in North America and some parts of Europe, it is a term that I felt needed to be easily accessible to understand. Ideally if someone was to google Gran fondo as a term (What is a Gran Fondo?) on the internet, the first link that would pop up is a Wikipedia site that explains this, the history, etc. Included on this page would be various international gran fondo events. Yes, this sounds similar to the cyclosportive, but even when you google gran fondo, cyclosportive does not pop up to click on wikipedia. This makes it hard to find for internet users. All I want to do is to find a way to make gran fondo (as a term) easy to find on wikipedia when someone tries to find out more about what it actually is. Again I apologize and I am hoping you can support me in finding a way to make this happen. Thank you.}}
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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gran Fondo (2), a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.
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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gran Fondo (2)
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Hello TOITevents. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Gran Fondo (2)".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 10:26, 12 August 2014 (UTC)