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August 2023

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Stop promoting Colin MacPherson's self-published material on Wikipedia, which you have been doing for 16 years. Binksternet (talk) 04:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

The idea that straight, factual, and relevant WP entries about the works of self-published artists is 'promotion' but when the entries are made by media specialists working for publishing or record companies then it is acceptable, is just another case of the unjustified degradation (that has nothing to do with the quality of the work) that artists who choose to work outside the 'system' have to face. You appear to have gone to some pains in your righteous endeavour to explicate anything I have ever uploaded to Wikipedia. I suspect you will enjoy knowing that I find this unfair and upsetting. However, the main reason I'm writing to you directly is to notify you that I have reinstated my entry from long ago on the topic of Taymouth Castle. I was a teacher at Taymouth Castle School in the early 1970's, and I went to great pains to gather primary data from past students and teachers that I could put up on a website dedicated to the memory of that short-lived, but hugely important (to our school 'family) establishment. For past teachers and students, seeing the WP entry removed was like seeing part of their personal history being erased -- as well as a part of the castle's history in general. I can't see why the WP-SYNTH rule applies in this case, and I ask that you keep the re-entry intact. Regardless of what you think of me, this entry is an important historical record, and removing it would be a sad...and devastating ... outcome. TBookist (talk) 03:48, 30 October 2024 (UTC)