Amithani
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Amithani, I assume from your username and edit history that you are one of the Mithanis, and that you are involved with the University of Atlanta. I called the UofA office over a week ago and asked to speak with someone with authority, and I was told by the very polite person I spoke with, who seemed to understand my concern, that I'd get a call back. The call did not come. The situation could be serious. Someone from Uganda, probably an SEO who may have been retained by you, has been adding inappropriate material to the article, repeatedly, and the result has already been that the removal of UofA from the Wikipedia blacklist, which I had managed to accomplish, has been reversed, and only the main info page is now whitelisted. Further, if efforts to add inappropriate material from unverifiable, independent sources, or to take away reliable material from the article continue, it is possible that the article could be deleted. (It should be irrelevant to the article itself, but Wikipedia is a human activity and there is sometimes retaliation for persistent vandalism, which is what it amounts to in the end.) I am myself concerned by your edit today. Your school's history is your school's history, you bought the bad with the good, and if I assume that you have fixed the problems that existed before, you should be proud of that and not try to cover it up.
On the other hand, even though you have a conflict of interest as A. B. pointed out, and would likely be blocked if you make any possibly controversial edits to the article itself, given how much attention is now on this article, you are quite welcome and encouraged to make suggestions for the improvement of the article on the attached Talk page. We have been looking for reliable sources about the history of your school, for example, you may be aware of newspaper articles that we might have missed, or even that don't exist on the internet (there is no requirement that sources be accessible on-line, there are alternate means of verification). I'd be happy to assist you. You may email me through the link in the sidebar for my Talk page. If there are any errors in the article, please let us know. We can't add material just on your say-so, even though my presumption would be that whatever you tell us is true, nor can we necessarily take out anything that is reliably sourced, but we do have a certain level of discretion, and if some report that shows up in the article is imbalanced, we can look at it and may be able to come up with something more accurate. --Abd (talk) 16:49, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Blocked
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You have been blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may place {{unblock}} on your user talk page to have the block reviewed. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia.
You were asked to discuss, you seem to have a conflict of interest. I am sorry, but if you insist and repeat in doing the same edits, that results in this block. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:03, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Help!!
editI'm a new user and have been trying to communicate with you regarding this link. Please contact me at mithania@yahoo.com so I may discuss content on this page which is damaging to the University. Please excuse my inexpreience, but I have a genuine interest in providing relevant content.
Unblock
editPlease unblock me so we can communicate in reference to the University of Atlanta page. Cheers. --Amithani (talk) 01:35, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
- You need to use the unblock template to request unblocking.... If you just want to communicate with a specific editor, you can go to their user page and, if he has his email enabled, you will see a "Email this user" link on the left of the page right under "Logs". --Enric Naval (talk) 14:09, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Sockpuppetry case
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You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amithani for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. MuZemike 17:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)