User talk:Waterway8

Hi, welcome. There has been a series of editors with an interest in Harry Schwarz, e.g. Bluekey7 (talk · contribs), History-SA (talk · contribs), Rock12321 (talk · contribs), Asdasdasdasd123 (talk · contribs), HistoryPlecace (talk · contribs) , El Frando45fk (talk · contribs), 1magn3s (talk · contribs), I want to rock123 (talk · contribs), Lau7777 (talk · contribs), Free87 twenty jkl (talk · contribs) and a series of edits from Tiscali UK IP addresses. I see at least three of those were renamed. I strongly suspect these are all from the same person; if I'm right, please read WP:SOCK and rather stick to one account. Zaian (talk) 20:56, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi there Zaian. I with others, run a refugee institute, where we hope to bring struggling refugees hope of a better future. We have focused on developing Mr Schwarz's page, in order to highlight his story from which others in a similar position may draw inspiration. The users "History-SA", "Bluekey7", "Lau7777" and "I want to rock123" are colleges of mine at the centre. As for the others listed, I am not aware of any association. As you can see we have also started a page on "Gustav Schröder" in December 09, a sea captain who saved hundreds of Jewish refugees, though we still have much work to do on it. Regards Waterway8 13 April 2010

Hmm, OK, it's certainly quite a sustained pattern of similar editing even for colleagues, and several of the ones you say you don't recognise show a very similar pattern, and were clearly the same person (related to the article subject) until they changed their wikipedia user names to hide their real identity. But be that as it may. Actually, I'm not intending to undermine your work at all - in fact I think the Harry Schwarz page is pretty solid. I just wanted to point you to Wikipedia policies such as WP:SOCK and I suppose also WP:COI. I do have a concern with the level to which Harry Schwarz links have appeared in other articles, including almost every other article related to South Africa under apartheid. This seems to be an unwarranted level of promotion for the subject, and I've removed a couple of those links which seemed especially tenuous. Zaian (talk) 20:45, 13 April 2010 (UTC)