User talk:Rethabloem

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Recent edit reversion

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. ~~~~ S Philbrick (Talk) 18:08, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 2025

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article about yourself, at Retha Bloem. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. OXYLYPSE (talk) 12:33, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 2025

A page you created has been nominated for deletion because it is a biography of a living person that is entirely negative in tone and contains unsourced content, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create articles about living people that are entirely negative in tone and unsourced. Wikipedia has a policy of verifiability and any negative information we use must be reliably sourced, and our articles must be balanced. Negative, unreferenced biographies of living people, along with other attack pages, are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy may be blocked from editing. Migfab008 (talk) 12:35, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should probably be A7 not G10. OXYLYPSE (talk) 12:37, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this was not an attack page. PhilKnight (talk) 12:48, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have reported this on WP:COIN. Please discuss. This user is having a conflict of interest. It's my belief that this article relates to the username. Migfab008 (talk) 12:57, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Migfab008 First you tagged the article as an attack page, when it wasn't. Now you've gone straight to COIN after the article has been moved to draft without actually attempting to engage with the editor in question. You really should slow down a little here and assume good faith, even if @Rethabloem isn't editing per the guidelines. They need to be given the opportunity to correct their behaviour before you waste other peoples time on notice boards. OXYLYPSE (talk) 13:04, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moved biography to draft

Hi, I have moved the Retha Bloem biography to Draft:Retha Bloem as it is not ready for being in the encyclopedia main space. PhilKnight (talk) 12:51, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]