User talk:Calperniaaddams

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[edit] Your article

Hello Ms. Addams, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Per a posting on the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, I noticed that you have requested the Wikipedia article on you be deleted. Whether that will occur or not is questionable, but I encourage you to participate in the discussion there. The BLP Noticeboard is staffed by administrators and other volunteer editors who are very experienced in these kinds of privacy-versus-notoriety issues, and they can advise you on relevant Wikipedia policy and the best course of action. Thank you. — Satori Son 18:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Don't take this the wrong way but how can we know you are really who you say you are?

I mean this is the net you could be anyone at all. You could be some random person masquerading online. I think it is only fair that you prove to the rest of us Wikipedians that you are who you say you are. For my money if User:Jokestress says you are who you say you are that will be sufficient. Please don't take this as me calling you some kind of a liar but really how could I possibly know from some text that you are who you say you are? --Hfarmer (talk) 04:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Questioning my identity is understandable

Anyone with the authority to help move my article toward deletion should feel free to contact me at calpernia@calpernia.com, a site I've owned and operated for many years now. I don't want to become embroiled in one of Wikipedia's notorious fights. I'm not angry. I explain my wishes in more detail on my article's entry on the Articles for Deletion page:

I'm just a single tiny person, and my article doesn't say anything bad about me, or anything that I disagree with. I'm not "demanding" deletion, which would be useless. But it's like discovering that your next door neighbor has erected an enormous dry-erase board with a detailed breakdown of your activities in the years you've lived next door, with an invitation for anyone in the neighborhood to add or change whatever they like. Legal? Maybe, but incredibly creepy. While I enjoy being an entertainer, and I was in the news for various events, and I'm on the web here and there, I'm calmly, plainly saying that I do not want to be in Wikipedia specifically. I know several Wikipedians, and I know that it becomes a pastime that they enjoy and to which they devote a lot of time. At times, I've seen it almost become an obsession, and if something like that is in play here, I hope that whomever can pull out of the conviction that every webpage must be filled with correctly sourced and formatted text enough to realize that there are consequences to this hobby. Surely, everyone began their time here as someone devoted to simply maintaining a useful resource. But when Wikipedia becomes a horde of judging, faceless strangers voting on what to do with me, who I can't fight or influence, it really disturbs me. I'm asking politely, not to remove some embarrassing exposé article on me, but just to leave me out of your project. Take down the creepy giant dry-erase board detailing my life. This isn't the Enquirer or TMZ.com, people who make a living from writing about others who'd prefer to be left out of their publications. When I was a child, one had to be dead or have their footprints on the moon to be in the encyclopedia. If Wikipedia is a benign and positive resource with intent to make the world a better place, then I would hope that my wishes to be left alone by it could be respected. If there is some other purpose for Wikipedia, such as to punish me for being on a reality show (Metropolitan90?) by denying my essentially insignificant-to-Wikipedia request, or to generally punish wrongdoers by nailing a list of their sins to the town hall door (as seems to be an argument for keeping the OJ Simpson type articles, which I won't defend or join since it's on an entirely different level), Wikipedia becomes a much more sinister seeming entity to me. I ask again, please, just leave me alone and out of it. Must I be bullied by people to the end of my days via every newly available medium? Write me at calpernia@calpernia.com if anyone doubts that I am "me". --calperniaaddams (talk) 04:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

calperniaaddams (talk) 05:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

"Anyone with the Authority to move your article towards deletion". A supposedly nice thing about wikipedia is that anyone can do anything to it. You yourself could delete all of the content of the article just leaving an empty page.... then someone (not me I have other fish to fry here) would likely revive it.  :-? What's worse is that even if this incarnation of the article is taken down there is nothing to stop it from coming back latter. This place is anarchy at it's most brutal.--Hfarmer (talk) 15:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia and Me

I don't want to just delete my article's content, because I know that is impermanent and would only lose the possible empathy of the Wikipedia community. I understand that I will eventually be steamrolled under by a hard and uncaring... encyclopedia... but I wanted to make my feelings known. It stymies me that I am being forced into participating and being defined by something that is supposed to be a helpful resource. Wikipedia should be helping people, not hurting them. I will probably note my feelings on the talk page of the undesired article about me eventually, but I won't take a lot of time to fight this. If my feelings are unimportant here, there is little I can do about it with my limited resources, sigh. But why can't I not be in Wikipedia? Has it been decided on some cosmic level that I "just have to"? --calperniaaddams (talk) 11:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Willam belli.jpg

[edit] Copyright problems

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Image:Willam belli.jpg, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Image:Willam belli.jpg appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Image:Willam belli.jpg has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

  • If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Image:Willam belli.jpg and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
  • If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Image:Willam belli.jpg with a link to where we can find that note.
  • If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Image:Willam belli.jpg.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Asher196 (talk) 12:28, 29 May 2008 (UTC)