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Information icon Hello, I'm Psychonaut. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Randy Wayne (biologist), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. In particular, an interview with an academic (and by a student, no less) cannot be used to establish the validity of a theory he is promoting. Please also refer to our policy on self-promotion. Psychonaut ( talk) 15:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC) reply

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Rather than create a new page as your User page, it would be better to put it in a subpage: create either User:BinaryPhoton/Spanswick or User:BinaryPhoton/Sandbox. (Just click to create, and then copy the article into the new page). Your user page should be about you, rather than someone else: if it wasn't that Spanswick has a date of death, someone coming across your user page might assume that you were he and were creating an autobiographical article. Pam D 22:04, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply

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I added {{ userpage}} to your user page because it was written in the style of a Wikipedia article. Likely the page should be blanked because you are duplicating a Wikipedia article in mainspace which per WP:FAKEARTICLE which says "Actual fake articles should be deleted as incompatible with the purpose of the project". If you do not like the {{ userpage}} banner please use some other way to distinguish the content of your user page from the Wikipedia article. Thank you. Jbh Talk 16:48, 12 July 2016 (UTC) reply

I hope it looks more appropriate now. BinaryPhoton ( talk) 18:31, 12 July 2016 (UTC) reply
Thank you. You may want to look at WP:NOTWEBHOST and WP:USERPAGE for general guidelines. Also, are you saying you are the person named? Your userpage is ambiguous about that. If you are, Randy Wayne (biologist) and wish it to be known then your userpage should not be written as if it is about a third party (Other editors may assume you are that person and may get in trouble on a technicality unless you say so outright). Also, you should contact WP:OTRS to verify your identity. This is something Wikipedia does to protect living people who have articles against impersonation - no accusation, there have just been some bad cases that we would like to avoid any potential repeat of. There are also Conflict of interest issues, as mentioned above, which would need to be addressed.

If you are not claiming to be Randy Wayne (biologist) then the material on your user page should be deleted per WP:FAKEARTICLE. My primary concern is addressing the identity issue and the confusion that can be caused by your userpage. You are not required to say who you are but you do need to clear up the ambiguity. Cheers. Jbh Talk 01:03, 13 July 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks...I just got a message that there was a flood in my lab...It is me (everything I do I do in my own name), and I will change it to first person as soon as I can.

Thanks, BinaryPhoton ( talk) 10:26, 13 July 2016 (UTC) reply

Great. Thank you for clearing that up. I hope there was no major damage at your lab. Jbh Talk 12:22, 13 July 2016 (UTC) reply
Thankfully, our janitor, John, saved the day--saved the books and the instruments! My user page is now first person. Thanks.

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Thanks and I will use the parameters you suggest in the future. BinaryPhoton ( talk) 23:45, 29 August 2016 (UTC) reply

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A couple of years back, you added a poem to the article Morris Bishop. As this poem seems to have first been published in 1946, I infer from this list that it is copyright and is due to remain so until 2041. (Although I'd guess that a revised Mickey Mouse Protection Act will further delay its transition to the public domain ... if human life on the planet lasts that long.) I therefore abridged the quotation drastically. I hope you understand.

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Dear Hoary, I understand completely. Thanks for making it so that the article plays by the rules. BinaryPhoton ( talk) 11:37, 23 August 2017 (UTC)BinaryPhoton reply

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This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) -- BinaryPhoton ( talk) 21:27, 25 September 2022 (UTC) reply

I understand Wikipedia's interesting in not hosting a free webpage. I also believe that there is a lot of nastiness and ad hominem attacks online because things are anonymous. I take responsibility for everything I write. You can look at my contributions page and see that I have edited in good faith a wide range of articles in a vast array of subjects and have never been nasty and have never made ad hominem attacks. Even if I were anonymous I would not be nasty nor make ad hominem attacks. But I put myself out there in case someone thinks I did something inappropriate--so like this speedy deletion--there can be rational debate.

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Wikipedia is not for hosting your CV. It has nothing to do with ad hominem attacks or anything of the sort. You're welcome to continue editing productively within Wikipedia guidelines. Star Mississippi 22:53, 25 September 2022 (UTC) reply

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I hope it looks more appropriate now. BinaryPhoton ( talk) 18:31, 12 July 2016 (UTC) reply
Thank you. You may want to look at WP:NOTWEBHOST and WP:USERPAGE for general guidelines. Also, are you saying you are the person named? Your userpage is ambiguous about that. If you are, Randy Wayne (biologist) and wish it to be known then your userpage should not be written as if it is about a third party (Other editors may assume you are that person and may get in trouble on a technicality unless you say so outright). Also, you should contact WP:OTRS to verify your identity. This is something Wikipedia does to protect living people who have articles against impersonation - no accusation, there have just been some bad cases that we would like to avoid any potential repeat of. There are also Conflict of interest issues, as mentioned above, which would need to be addressed.

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Thanks...I just got a message that there was a flood in my lab...It is me (everything I do I do in my own name), and I will change it to first person as soon as I can.

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Great. Thank you for clearing that up. I hope there was no major damage at your lab. Jbh Talk 12:22, 13 July 2016 (UTC) reply
Thankfully, our janitor, John, saved the day--saved the books and the instruments! My user page is now first person. Thanks.

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Dear Hoary, I understand completely. Thanks for making it so that the article plays by the rules. BinaryPhoton ( talk) 11:37, 23 August 2017 (UTC)BinaryPhoton reply

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Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) -- BinaryPhoton ( talk) 21:27, 25 September 2022 (UTC) reply

I understand Wikipedia's interesting in not hosting a free webpage. I also believe that there is a lot of nastiness and ad hominem attacks online because things are anonymous. I take responsibility for everything I write. You can look at my contributions page and see that I have edited in good faith a wide range of articles in a vast array of subjects and have never been nasty and have never made ad hominem attacks. Even if I were anonymous I would not be nasty nor make ad hominem attacks. But I put myself out there in case someone thinks I did something inappropriate--so like this speedy deletion--there can be rational debate.

Thanks, BinaryPhoton ( talk) 21:27, 25 September 2022 (UTC)BinaryPhoton reply

Wikipedia is not for hosting your CV. It has nothing to do with ad hominem attacks or anything of the sort. You're welcome to continue editing productively within Wikipedia guidelines. Star Mississippi 22:53, 25 September 2022 (UTC) reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Babbling Beaver (September 30)

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Greenman ( talk) 07:10, 30 September 2022 (UTC) reply

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