Hello, I recently tried to post an article about the history of the music group that Mark Twise was involved with. It appears you (?) are the one who took it down? No sooner has I posted it was it contested. I thought I followed the protocol both for the parameters as well as how to content the contestation, but then it was summarily removed without any discussion with me. Could you please inform me as the what I am missing in my understanding of the logistics and justifications, as well as the more particular reason why my entry was rejected, and by whom. For perhaps I could restore some faith ( I guesss) if I was told where I have gone wrong. Thanks. Allannewcare (talk) 15:01, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Allannewcare. What is your relationship to Mark Twise? -Fastily 08:17, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A friend. but I am his Freind's ex-husband. Allannewcare (talk) 14:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see. As his "Freind's ex-husband", perhaps you can elaborate on why you are writing a promotional piece about him? Oh, and I trust you are aware that is prohibited on Wikipedia? -Fastily 20:54, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not write it in the spirit of promotion. I modeled it after other wiki entries that describe music artists. I am writing in the spirit of history, of a specific type of history, indeed supported by contemporary philosophy, indeed, here encouraged not by Mark but by others who appreciate the history. I tried to not promote but to report; I deliberately did not put links in the page for the purpose of not appearing as promotion. The page he has for his project does little promotion, and I try to describe the reason in the wiki piece. Many people feel it is important.

Please tell me how I might alter it so it does not appear like a promotion. Allannewcare (talk) 21:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming you have no ulterior motives, that you attempted to "not write it in the spirit of promotion" does not automatically make it "not promotion". See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I suggest you refrain from writing about this topic. -Fastily 23:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will take the suggestion, with comment. I have at least 8 personal friends (and many more less close friends) who have pages on Wiki that presently meet this Wiki conflict of interest standard, and closer than I do, who did not face this "concern". By a simple search, I can easily find hundreds that "promote" on here and yet stay posted. These artists and musicians asked me to post this page and indeed helped with feedback about it before I put it on; and not Mark, that's for sure. Yet for some reason I have been singled out, and I believe it is not because of any Wiki "standards" of Wikis "goals". No, it is overt bias. I am not sure why, but its ok. However, it saddens me that what I thought was a good bastion of credible knowledge that I actually donate to appears somehow lessened in stature and quality through this interaction. If you and people like you are the face of Wiki "gatekeeping", I am sourly embarrassed for Wiki and I apologize. I am sure many more who hear of this will be as well disheartened. Good luck in your travels. I hope you get what you need and you can find what you are looking for; I sense it is difficult for you. Allannewcare (talk) 00:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My sandbox was marked for speedy deletion and then deleted within minutes. Can you explain how an unpublished article would get flagged and deleted like that while it is still in the process of being created? TruthIsLikeGravity (talk) 01:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TruthIsLikeGravity Well I'm not Fastily, but they deleted it as it looked like you were using the Wikipedia page to host writings and other information not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. PS @Fastily if you don't want me doing this anymore please let me know, I wanted to help reduce your influx of basic requests so you can focus on administrator stuff. :-) Best to both --- thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:46, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:FuzzyMagma § Proposed deletion of File:Synthesised Sudan album cover.webp. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:05, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fastily. Could you take a look at this to see whether there might be another way to resolve this besides F5 or FFD? -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:06, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The uploader has decided to remove the file from the article and let it be deleted per F5; so, I guess there's nothing more that needs to be done here unless that's out of process in some way. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:02, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]