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Grey matter

Hi -- your edit was reasonable, I just wanted to point out that standard practice is to use spaces rather than underscores in wikilinks, that is Central nervous system rather than Central_nervous_system. Both ways work, but the form with spaces is preferred. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 04:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jeff Ball (composer)

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A tag has been placed on Jeff Ball (composer), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jeff Ball (composer)

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A tag has been placed on Jeff Ball (composer) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jeff_Ball_(composer). When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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@TheChronium: It was nice of you to leave a contest this speedy deletion button, but 1.5 hours is awfully speedy. As such, I had no opportunity to press it.

The deletion discussion page for this article 10 years ago cited lack of notability (WP:COMPOSER) and lack of reliable sources. A lot has changed in 10 years. I believe that the subject matches the requirements of WP:COMPOSER (Specifically #4, as cited in my article edit). I also added several citations from reliable sources.

You cited section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion. However, recreating a previously deleted page is not forbidden. Specifically, because notability status has changed, re-creation is allowed. Please pay special attention to this quote from section G4: "It excludes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies."

You also cited section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. There is nothing unambiguous about it. As I described below, if my pov was not neutral, I will attempt to fix that in the my next attempt. Stating that my article edit is "unambiguous advertising or promotion" seems irresponsible. Unambiguous means obvious, clear, or undebatable. It was not. Pay special attention to this quote from section G11: "If a subject is notable and the content could plausibly be replaced with text written from a neutral point of view, this is preferable to deletion."

Please also pay special attention to item 4 (notability) of Non-criteria for speedy deletion: "Articles that seem to have obviously non-notable subjects are eligible for speedy deletion only if the article does not give a credible indication of why the subject might be important or significant."

I also suggest you take a look at How to prevent overly-eager speedy deletion. ----Cowlinator (talk) 01:47, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2021

Hello Cowlinator. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Jeff Ball (composer), gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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@TheChronium: Hi TheChronium. You are mistaken. I am not being directly nor indirectly compensated for my edits.

I would understand if you wanted to claim non-npov for my edits. I can certainly try to be more neutral in my next attempt. It hardly seems fair, however, for you to just slap a Uw-paid1 on me without any citation of evidence to support it, and assume that the burden of proof falls on me. The Uw-paid1 template contains an "additional text" field. Perhaps you could have used that to cite a single reason for your claim.

I am willing to change the article to meet any npov or other requirements needed.

Happy 5 month anniversary on becoming a Wikipedia editor, by the way. ----Cowlinator (talk) 01:47, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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