User talk:Bobschier
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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Richard Gallagher
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A tag has been placed on Draft:Richard Gallagher, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Bobschier. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Richard Gallagher MD, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Hi Bobschier--I think this is your second bite at the apple. I propose the following: your very next edit should address the matter of the conflict of interest I believe you have, or you get blocked for promotional editing. Drmies (talk) 22:02, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
- OK, Drmies. Thanks, I will address the COI on my next edit. I'd like your opinion here -- I DO know the subject and agree with some of his views and disagree with some of his views. My intent was to describe his views on the demonic in detail by quoting from his published works. If this is considered inappropriate I can discard those quotes and give a short general description. I intended to present both criticisms and support for his views from credible sources -- but I can discard these as well if they are inappropriate. I had debated before writing this piece the idea of not mentioning his particular beliefs or those of his critics or supporters at all and simply listing his education, career and aa couple sentences about his involvement in the demonic -- and leaving the details of his views and the controversies completely out. If that's the course to take, I'll do it. Bobschier (talk) 05:22, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
June 2025
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Drmies (talk) 12:44, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
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{{Unblock on hold |1=blocking administrator |2=Please unblock me. First, the article on Richard Gallagher was incomplete (Believe it or not, I did not realize that "Publish" meant that it would go out into the world. I thought it was only a way of saving my draft for my own use. Looking back it is hard to believe Ithought that, but it's true.) I was in the process of lining up more material both critical and supportive of Gallagher. Was it a problem that I had such extensive quotes from Gallagher's works -- if so, I can remove them and only reference the general ideas by inline references. I was intending to submit the page for review as someone who knows the subject (and does not fully agree with his views) before publishing it. My attempt in the article was to present Gallagher's claims clearly and the present both critiques and support for his claims. I would like the chance to continue reworking the piece with any necessary changes and then submitting it for review. [[User:Bobschier|Bobschier]] ([[User talk:Bobschier#top|talk]]) 21:41, 19 June 2025 (UTC) |3 = ~~~~}}
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{{unblock reviewed |1=Please unblock me. First, the article on Richard Gallagher was incomplete (Believe it or not, I did not realize that "Publish" meant that it would go out into the world. I thought it was only a way of saving my draft for my own use. Looking back it is hard to believe Ithought that, but it's true.) I was in the process of lining up more material both critical and supportive of Gallagher. Was it a problem that I had such extensive quotes from Gallagher's works -- if so, I can remove them and only reference the general ideas by inline references. I was intending to submit the page for review as someone who knows the subject (and does not fully agree with his views) before publishing it. My attempt in the article was to present Gallagher's claims clearly and the present both critiques and support for his claims. I would like the chance to continue reworking the piece with any necessary changes and then submitting it for review. [[User:Bobschier|Bobschier]] ([[User talk:Bobschier#top|talk]]) 21:41, 19 June 2025 (UTC) |decline = {{subst:Decline reason here}} ~~~~}}
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{{unblock reviewed |1=Please unblock me. First, the article on Richard Gallagher was incomplete (Believe it or not, I did not realize that "Publish" meant that it would go out into the world. I thought it was only a way of saving my draft for my own use. Looking back it is hard to believe Ithought that, but it's true.) I was in the process of lining up more material both critical and supportive of Gallagher. Was it a problem that I had such extensive quotes from Gallagher's works -- if so, I can remove them and only reference the general ideas by inline references. I was intending to submit the page for review as someone who knows the subject (and does not fully agree with his views) before publishing it. My attempt in the article was to present Gallagher's claims clearly and the present both critiques and support for his claims. I would like the chance to continue reworking the piece with any necessary changes and then submitting it for review. [[User:Bobschier|Bobschier]] ([[User talk:Bobschier#top|talk]]) 21:41, 19 June 2025 (UTC) |accept = accept reason here ~~~~}}
The button says "publish" to indicate that all edits to every type of page on Wikipedia are public(though some are harder to find than others). It's not hard to believe that you thought otherwise, so don't feel bad, but the button was changed from "save" largely at the request of Wikipedia's lawyers to do that. If you don't want people to see what you are doing, don't put it on Wikipedia until you are ready. Do you have any association with Dr. Gallagher? 331dot (talk) 01:17, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you, 331dot. Well, I was certainly confused enough to make that mistake of publishing a draft. As I said above, my intention from the start was to submit the draft for review while at the same time being clear about my COI (I do know the subject of the piece). I think at this point that I am still blocked. I would like to be able to thoroughly rework the article, remove whatever is inappropriate then submit it for review.