Magicpatmarker

Joke additions

Please don't add joke entries to articles, as you have done in both Adams' Grammar School and Iain Lee. This is vandalism and will get you blocked from Wikipedia if you continue. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 14:14, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

I could see that some of what you were adding was genuine, but please let me explain why I thought some of it were jokes.

• The addition of Matthew Parker to the Adams' Grammar School article wasn't cited and I couldn't find any mention of him on Google. The name bore some similarity to your own user name, so I suspected a 'vanity edit'. If you have some reliable cites for him then do please add him back. Better yet, perhaps you might consider creating an article for him? Even if it's just a short stub article, he sounds like an interesting character from what you say.
• You didn't add edit summaries to most of your edits on Iain Lee. Edit summaries explain what you are doing and help avoid misunderstandings.
• You didn't cite anything you were adding. Cites prove the material you are adding is genuine, even if it looks odd. This is particularly important for statements like "Iain Lee has actively encouraged vandalism of his wikipedia page." This looked like an 'everyone join in with me' invitation to vandals. (And, incidentally, it isn't 'his' page. It's Wikipedia's.)
• What is the manjuice external link all about? This looked most peculiar and what initially raised my suspicions. The link goes to a dodgy domain-parking site and has nothing to do with Iain Lee that I can see.

I am sorry if you did have the best of intentions with your additions, but you can see why I suspected somebody was just indulging themselves with a private joke. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 19:13, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Will Sentance

The article Will Sentance has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Gurt Posh (talk) 14:45, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

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