User talk:KenDavison3

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Arielle Kayabaga

I undid your edit to create a link to Arielle Kayabaga in the London, Ontario article. You've kind of got the process backwards - first establish an article for the person to establish her notability - THEN create links to the article. PKT(alk) 11:23, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

You'll also need to be aware that city councillors in places that are not in the global city class (Toronto, Montreal, New York City, Chicago, etc.) are not automatically deemed notable just for existing. In order to establish that Arielle Kayabaga is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article at all, you will have to show her as being much, much more prominent than most other city councillors, such as by showing that she receives nationalized coverage far, far beyond just London's local media. I'm not seeing any evidence that she does, but that is the standard you would have to meet to get a city councillor in London ON considered notable enough to have an article on here. Bearcat (talk) 13:50, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Meditlondon. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Arielle Kayabaga, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GPL93 (talk) 01:56, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

(talk) I'm afraid I don't understand the issue here. Arielle Kayabaga is our city Councillor. There are many articles on politicians and I used a template from another politician so that I would be using what is apparently an acceptable format. Arielle does not work for me nor has she paid me to write this article. Is she a friend? Well we've had lunch a few times but how else do I learn about a person in order to write an article? I learned about her early life through these discussions. I linked to articles/ web pages in order to back up my comments but I didn't link to my own pages. With regards to complying with policies, I have in fact read through stuff and the more I read the less I feel I can publish just about anything without breaking some rule. Meditlondon (talk) 18:07, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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This user is asking to be unblocked to request a change in username.

KenDavison3 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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I have used meditlondon as a user for years. I don't get why it's a problem NOW but I have requested a name change via the Global Rename

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Meditlondon (talk) 13:23, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

• What is your association with the company called Med IT in London? 331dot (talk) 19:02, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

I am the owner/operator of the sole proprietorship (i.e not incorporated). I have no employees and work from home. I am for all intents a self employed computer technician. Meditlondon (talk) 23:21, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

There is already a username "Ken Davison" registered, you will need to choose something else. You may just remove "KenDavison" and replace it with your new choice. 331dot (talk) 23:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

I did a username search here and it apparently isn't in use. I did a search before too. https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?search=username+search&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1 and also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/KenDavison Meditlondon (talk) 01:58, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User:Meditlondon

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I must say this is a frustrating experience. My first article about our city councilor was deleted because I copied information from her website. I am now writing if from scratch but apparently making links is spam yet I'm supposed to backup my statements. Very frustrating. There are many articles about politicians. I didn't have a user page for years but a message popped up about 'meditlondon not having a page' so I created one and talked about myself as instructed to. I am a self employed computer technician, politically active, Ontario Commissioner for BPSA and many other things. I am not being paid for this article or any other edits. 13:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC) Meditlondon (talk) 18:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)