Welcome!

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An extended welcome

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

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I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 15:54, 25 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Outing threat

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I noticed this statement you made on Talk:Cold fusion: I live and work in Tech in San Francisco and I have access to the Wikimedia people. Do I need to dig into your history to figure out if you have a financial incentive to keep this lie in the article? This is a blatant and unmistakable threat to post another editor's personal information for harassment. You should be aware that the Wikimedia Foundation has issued specific legal guidance against the practice of outing, and this is the official position of the WMF Legal Team. In other words, whoever you claim to know in San Francisco, they will not assist you in "digging into" any editor. In addition, the Terms of Use you agreed to follow when you created your account state the following: Therefore, for your own protection and for that of other users, you may not engage in such activities on our sites. These activities include:...Infringing the privacy rights of others under the laws of the United States of America or other applicable laws (which may include the laws where you live or where you view or edit content);Soliciting personally identifiable information for purposes of harassment, exploitation, violation of privacy, or any promotional or commercial purpose not explicitly approved by the Wikimedia Foundation; Violating these Terms of Use is grounds for blocking your account. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Zach vorhies (August 30)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by RoySmith were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
-- RoySmith (talk) 22:11, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
 
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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Zach vorhies

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Zach vorhies, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. creffett (talk) 22:44, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

August 2019

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  Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please 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 or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's 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 the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. creffett (talk) 22:44, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply