AHA1877

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Again, welcome! Bob98133 (talk) 21:54, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "American humane"

A page you created, American humane, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it redirects from an implausible misspelling.

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Thank you. Millermk90 (talk) 18:00, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

COI

You'll want to visit Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#American_Humane_Association and, if you have not done so, read WP:COI. --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:52, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only you.
 
Additionally, it appears your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest, though you may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you.

--Orange Mike | Talk 18:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

• It is very disappointing, AHA1877, that though you knew from my 02:52, 6 March 2012 that there was concern about your editing the AHA article, you chose to do more editing rather than discuss the problems associated with your edits. Frankly that's not what I would expect from anyone claiming to be the professional representative of a long established organisation. You merely make a bad situation worse. We are more than happy to work with you to improve the article. Equally, we will quite cheerfully delete all of the content you have added to the article in the absence of any input from you. What we will not do is to permit you to annex the wikipedia article as a promotional platform for the AHA. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Image copyright & licenses

I beg to doubt your assertions and licensing of images loaded to the commons [1]. Are these really your work (you personally), or do you mean they're owned by the AHA? If the latter then the assertions you make in each image "Own work" are wrong. And I advise that you should provide confirmations of the licenses for the images through the OTRS. You'd be the first organisation I've come across to license its logo under the Creative Commons. Most unlikely. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Hero dog awards

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Offering help

Hello!

I've reverted the AHA article back to its form before you began editing the page. I know this may seem drastic but please believe me when I say that it's not punitive. The block of this username is also not intended to be punitive towards you. I would like to offer my help, should you want it, in editing the page. As you have a great deal of information to add, I think the best bet would be to help you create a copy of the article outside of mainspace (where all the article are kept) in your userspace (on Wikipedia but not out in the open). This way, you could edit the article and ask for help. Other editors and I could assist you, again if you want, and make sure the article complies with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If this is something you're interested in, feel free to leave a message here and I would be happy to help you move forward. OlYeller21^Talktome 18:49, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I would very much appreciate any help you can offer. Your idea sounds more than reasonable and totally fair. As I am new on this site, I may require a bit of help. To clarify, when you say "I think the best bet would be to help you create a copy of the article outside of mainspace (where all the article are kept) in your userspace (on Wikipedia but not out in the open). This way, you could edit the article and ask for help." do you mean that I should create the page content on my username page and ask for help, or put it somewhere else? I'm sorry, I just don't quite understand the lingo yet. Thank you so much for offering to help. Ava Harper (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC).

Let's take this conversation to User talk:Ava Harper. Note that I've created User:Ava Harper/AHA. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)