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Speedy deletion of JACK STICE MEMORIAL COMMINUTY SERVICE AWARD™

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AfD nomination of Southeast Leatherfest

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Proposed deletion of Catherine Gross

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Nomination of Catherine Gross for deletion

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Conflict of interest

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:44, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

I understand it is difficult to find the usual sources given the secretive nature of our kink society. We have spent decades hiding so we would not be jailed, lose our jobs or placed in psychiatric care. Sado-masochistic societies have thrived on confidentiality and pseudonyms. Tracking down articles written in publications that were circulated only to vetted members known to the publisher is beyond difficult. Even proving what significance those publications (i.e. who wrote them, where they were published, if that group had any significance had) would be difficult at best. We have been working to verify buried history. The award given by Black Rose is significant. At the time, Black Rose was a premier powerhouse with 3500 attendees. It was the only one of it's kind on the eastern seaboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rose_(BDSM_organization)#Awards

Pantheon of Leather is given by The Leather Journal - these national awards are the 2nd oldest awards given in the leather community. They have standing and significance. Give me some time with this article and what I believe you'll have at the end of the day is: 1) links to a historical book with proper research from Peter Tupper; 2) archives properly processed at the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago [this will take some time as my archives span 30 years]; and 3) possible pieces written in the New York Daily, New York University interview, citations from The Leather Journal and Leatherati (the last two being the prominent new vehicles of the SM world). Please consider not deleting a history that you may not understand because SM communities haven't functioned as you would expect the rest of the world to function. We couldn't. Our lives, jobs and families were at stake. References listed on wiki have had their links were removed. Viola Johnson, SouthEast LeatherFest, Kink Aware Professionals pages. Those entities know me personally and received permission to link. That is due to how the communities function in regards to confidentiality.

I understand wiki has an expectation that someone else will write about me. In the BDSM, sado-masochistic, Master/slave, Dominant/submissive communities this would be a breech of accepted behavior. Anyone else writing about me when I haven't given my explicit permission (putting an article here provides that permission) would be viewed as someone else "outing" me. Outing someone in our communities can get members of the community shunned. It's not merely seen as bad practice or poor manners-- it's a severe community infraction. Notnilla (talk) 21:35, 23 December 2013 (UTC)notnilla

Do not write about yourself

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:44, 23 December 2013 (UTC)