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Again, welcome! Imzadi 1979 → 08:32, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• a key early stepping stone for the development of a U.S. Green electoral politics. Facilitated by [[Danny Moses], some 150 people attended and moved ahead with forming [http://www.cagreens.org/

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...you may want to weigh in on this accusatory comment. - 70.192.130.126 (talk) 21:17, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Mfeinstein, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. 5 albert square (talk) 01:13, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that if you are unblocked then you will not be able to continue editing in the manner in which you have been. Please read our conflict of interest policy, you have been editing your own article and those of subjects that you are associated with.--5 albert square (talk) 01:17, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

5 albert square - This is actually a pretty bogus block, in the first place, since "Mike Feinstein" is not a commonly-known, famous individual that we soft-block over. In the second place, you are misleading Mr. Feinstein by intimating that he can not directly edit his own biography. He most certainly can, so long as he observes Terms of Use by declaring his COI either on his user page, on the talk page or the article, or in the edit summary of each edit he makes to the piece. Of course he may face political harassment if he does this, since our rules against bullying newcomers are weak. Carrite (talk) 06:47, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Carrite, I suggest that you read this.--5 albert square (talk) 20:39, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jimbo Wales says right after that he meant blocking if you did a polite request first and it was ignored. Popish Plot (talk) 14:54, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for message. You obviously haven't understood the speedy deletion notice above, but I deleted your article because

• The article was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. In this case the copied site clearly says © 2011 Green Party of California All Rights Reserved There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
• Just to make it clear, it is illegal in the US, EU and elsewhere to infringe copyright. Although you may quote parts in a non-commercial context, that doesn't help you here where most of the text is lifted verbatim from copyrighted sources.
• They are in the public domain. — since the Green Party of California (at least) is explicitly claiming copyright, the onus is on you to show that the Green Party does in fact allow its text to be distributed and modified for any purpose, including commercial, because that is what PD means
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Quoting the party's policies rather than verifiable facts is clearly spamming, and I note that your references are to the party and similar organisations, not to independent verifiable sources

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:03, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I have decided to unblock you, however I will be watching your edits.

One of the policies of Wikipedia is neutrality and when I looked at your edits, they certainly did not come across as neutral. Articles should not take sides but should explain the sides fairly and without bias. Edits should avoid stating opinions as facts and should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice. They should be attributed to particular sources etc etc. As a general rule, sourced information should not be removed solely on the grounds that it appears biased. Instead it should be re-written. I suggest that you read the neutrality policy in full.

On top of that, I noticed that you edited your own article. Please note that editing articles which you have a connection with is strongly discouraged. This is because it undermines the public's confidence that Wikipedia is an independent source amongst other things. Wikipedia is certainly not a forum for self-advertising, self-promotion etc, it is an encyclopaedia and as such Wikipedians should put the best interests of the encyclopaedia first and foremost. If you have a conflict of interest with an article, I would suggest that you discuss changes to the article on the relevant article talk page. Alternatively, you can post a request at the conflict of interest noticeboard.

I hope the above makes sense.

Apologies for blocking you before. If you have any questions about the above, please do not hesitate to drop me a line on my talk page. In the meantime I'm off to eat some of this :)--5 albert square (talk) 23:47, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]