Bruce01

Hey OlEnglish. I appreciate your concerns about a conflict of interest, but i am unsure as to why you have come to this conclusion. I believe the article in question was written in a very neutral fashion, if you could allude to any part that you feel is conflicting to this i would appreciate you letting me know and i'd be more than happy to address it. I don't think there is a conflict of interest, i need to know of the team to write about them, but everything that has been written has been referenced to what i feel is an appropriate standard, and i have argued this more on the deletion argument page. Thank you for your concerns, these will assist me to write better articles in the future.-- MBAReporter (talk) 05:19, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey there. The COI tag was in response to seeing this and I admit I was a bit hasty in my tagging. I think the article is fine and should be kept but let's wait until it goes through the process of AfD before removing any tags. And if it does get deleted, please don't let that discourage you, your contributions ARE appreciated and good luck in the future. Regards -- œ^™ 06:22, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh ok fair enough i see what you mean. I'm not actually part of the Moe Basketball Association in any way, that's just the name that i came up with when i decided to write on the issue. I didn't realize at the time that it would eventually appear that it was conflicting. I haven't been through this process before so thank you for your explanation. Its appreciated. -- MBAReporter (talk) 07:26, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

No prob. If you ever want to change your username go to Wikipedia:Changing username. -- œ^™ 07:31, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for that useful information. I have filed for a new name that will hopefully dispel any conflict of interest that may have seemed to exist. If this new name is granted, what is the protocol of deleting the conflict of interest tag?--MBAReporter (talk) 07:47, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I removed it for you. :) As for the one on the article, you can remove it yourself if you want but it's best to just wait until it goes through the AfD process. -- œ^™ 07:54, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

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I certainly did change it, i want to make sure there is no conflict of interest (because i really have nothing to do with the MBA), and thank you again for pointing out how there previously could have been. I understand the AfD tag must remain for now, but can the other templates for the conflict of interest and neutrality be removed from being displayed on the 42ers page now as they should have been resolved? Or do these also have an amount of time they should stay there? thanks for your help--Bruce01 (talk) 14:58, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Once again, you can go ahead and remove them if you want (just edit the page and delete the templates, just not the afd one) but it's always best to wait and see what the outcome of the afd is first. -- œ^™ 15:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey OlEnglish. OK so there are some, excuse the term, wankers that exist within wikipedia who obviously have no brains (not you of course), and the article was deleted. Is there a process now that can appeal this, and what are the chances of success in overturning this decision? Any help would be very much appreciated (i apologize for the language but its really hurt and frustrated me that this has happened to what should be, on an encyclopedia of limitless size, notable enough for existence).Bruce01 (talk) 15:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Deletion Review probably won't do much good I'm afraid. Are you going to write another article? One that unquestionably meets notability? I really think you should try again with a different subject.

As for the deletion, I don't know why they didn't just copy it to your userpage (see WP:Userfication). Check with one of these guys: Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles if you still want it back. -- œ^™ 18:31, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you again for that information, and al the information you have given me in the past. Unfortunately i will not be attempting to write any other articles for wikipedia. I do not agree with the decision, and i am not going to waste the amount of effort i have put into this article on any other article that may benefit wikipedia at all. However, i am certainly going to redirect this effort in a number of different ways. I will actively discourage any potential editors from contributing to any articles to ensure their valuable time, unlike my own, is not wasted, and i will also give a couple of users, who looked to laugh off my attempt rather than appreciate it, many more tedious jobs and edits to do that will not stop. Hopefully, this will avert the attention of these users away from proposing deletions and allow other pages similar to this one to exist for the longest time possible. I assure you that you will see no repercussions of this. Thank you again.--Bruce01 (talk) 02:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

If you intend to start trolling now you'll get blocked very quickly. -- œ^™ 02:14, 13 June 2009 (UTC)