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Let me add my own welcome, and a note: f the essay criticizing St. John's is yours, you might want to put it here, on your own user page. This sort of material is perfectly appropriate on user pages. Within very broad limits you can do what you like in your own "user space." See my comments at Talk:St. John's College, U. S.Dpbsmith(talk) 19:12, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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I have been blocked from editing the St. John’s College page. Let it be known that the individuals who monitor the St. John’s site are almost all themselves Johnnies, and they’ve put forth several arguments for not adding my website. THERE ARE TWO ISSUES HERE:
(1) I have refuted every one of their arguments, from the website not being “verifiable” to Wikipedia not being a “soapbox.” Please see the discussion page for more (my posts are signed "carnaptime" or "PT"). As I have iterated ad nauseum, GIVE ME A LEGITIMATE REASON TO TAKE DOWN MY LINK, OR KEEP IT UP. These Johnnies, who, of course, have a vested interest in the page, about which they are as authoritarian as the St. John’s program, either fail to respond to my objections or make a bad refutable argument. THE REASON I KEPT POSTING THE LINK TO THE WEBSITE IS BECAUSE, ONCE AGAIN: GIVE ME A LEGITIMATE REASON FOR TAKING THE LINK DOWN, OTHERWISE, LEAVE IT UP. They would take the link down, and then I would add it and write "Give me a legitimate reason..." They would take the link down and I would write "Give me a legitimate reason..." Thus, these Johnnies just kept removing the link without responding to my concerns, and thus, I continued to post the link. It’s as simple as that. Furthermore, if there is an issue of posting one’s own link, then surely (a) there is an issue of monitoring the St. John’s wiki page by St. John’s students (of which I am not), and (b) I could very easily get someone else to post it. Again, the link is perfectly legitimate, a notable site (that the entire St. John’s community is aware of), and so on.
(2) If the arguments that the Johnnies monitoring the St. John’s page are valid, then there is some serious editing that needs to be done – as one of the Johnnies said, some of the material is not verifiable or sourced, and there is quite a bit of original research on the page. This needs to be removed immediately, whether or not someone forces my link off the page.
Wikipedia is not, of course, the place for suppression of ideas, as has been the case. I want solid reasons for not putting my link up, or else I WANT THE LINK UP. I am only asking for fairness, but so far have only received the opposite. Again, my link is not a fansite, or anything of the sort. It is a legitimate critique of the St. John's program -- and surely, in the "St. John's spirit," it belongs under the external links section, just like Sydney Hooks' essay, and so on. Once again, all I am asking for is fairness -- instead, without any valid reason, I have been blocked. (Why not block the individual who kept removing my link without giving me a reason why?)
Thanks.
Decline reason:
This does not excuse you from complying with WP:3RR, WP:SPAM, and WP:EL. — Yamla 17:47, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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A tag has been placed on Phillip Torres requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. shoy 20:55, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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