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December 14

Kenneth Fetterman

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'Kenneth Fetterman was a victim of scam artist- Kenneth Walton to sell very expensive counterfeit art art on eBay.It was later learned that Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams, as well as many other auction houses, continue to bid for their clients undisclosed reserves and do not disclose all of their reserves. Fetterman and Walton tried the same tactic to sell with undisclosed reserves on eBay, which was legal at the time, but Fetterman was put in prison for it. This was after Walton forged a painting, without Fetterman's knowledge. Walton then made a deal with the government to avoid prison time. Walton has a previous history of forging Army Id's and even signed a fake name of a Russian general on a military document to create chaos. Kenneth Walton, who had, in May 2000, sold a fake painting that was at the time the highest price ever paid for a painting in an online auction. It was supposedly the undiscovered work of the late Northern California artist Richard Diebenkorn. However, the fraud was discovered, and after Walton was investigated, it was uncovered that Walton, Scott Beach, and Fetterman were involved in what the government called shill bidding ring and that Walton had faked many paintings. After feeling the injustice about what was haoppening, Fetterman wrote a 450 page paper about human rights,before he was finally caught indicted by a federal grand jury for selling art in auctions on eBay, without revealing his reserves- the same practice that continues today by Sotheby's, Bonhams, Christie's and many other auction houses. At the time, this practice was legal on eBay, Yet,in May 2004, Fetterman was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison. References

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.143.160.123 (talk) 13:13, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Please create and submit a draft article. See WP:YFA. The help desk is not for proposed content, but if you have questions about the process, come back ere with them. -Arch dude (talk) 17:04, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Les Sablons

Hi,

Whoever is reading this, please create the page Les Sablons as a redirection to Les Sablons (Paris Métro). Many thanks!

2A02:A44D:9F2F:1:2048:C6F:65FA:2DF8 (talk) 15:38, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello, please make your request at WP:AFC/R. If 'Les Sablons' has other uses in reality, it may not be appropriate to create such a redirect to the metro stop. If you enter 'Les Sablons' in the search box the entry for the stop is the only item that comes up in the 'dropdown'. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 15:45, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

It seems to me that the article should be moved to Les Sablons. Since there are no other articles of that name, the disambiguation is not required (WP:PRECISION). However, moving the article would be troublesome. Most of the articles in {{Paris Métro line 1 navbox}} use this - in fact, most of them use the template {{pms}} which explicitly inserts "(Paris Métro)" into the link - but most of them actually do require this for disambigation, unlike les Sablons. --ColinFine (talk) 16:54, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Request for help

Hi. I published my page earlier today. I am a professional actor, who works out of Massachusetts. How can I add my name to the list(s) of male actors from Massachusetts and related groups here? Thank you.

Brian donovon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian donovon (talk • contribs) 18:32, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@Brian donovon: Welcome. You created your Wikipedia ediror's user page. See WP:USERPAGE. It's supposed to be (mostly) about how you contribute to Wikipedia. You did not create a Wikipedia article. We do not add pople to lists like that unless there is a Wikipedia article. You should not attempt to write an article about yourself (See WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY) even if you are notable enough to warrant an article. Unless you meet our notability standards, you will not have an article on Wikipedia no matter who writes it. If you do meet our notability standards, then we do want an article about you. -Arch dude (talk) 18:48, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Community portal vs Dashboard

What is the difference between the community portal and the dashboard and should they be merged? Interstellarity (talk) 20:22, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@Interstellarity: From what I see, Wikipedia:Dashboard is an overview of ongoing discussions in various areas. The portal at Wikipedia:Community_portal is a collection of work that needs to be done. They are not the same thing, as one is a link to discussions and the other can be seen as a giant "to-do" list. RudolfRed (talk) 22:01, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@RudolfRed: That's clear to me. Do you think the names of the pages are OK or are they ambiguous? Interstellarity (talk) 22:13, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Seems fine to me. You can start a discussion on one of the talk pages if you have a proposal for a rename. RudolfRed (talk) 22:35, 14 December 2019 (UTC)