User talk:Lmccullough

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Better late than never, here's a welcome and links to policies. We do have an essay called Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers which other editors might try to remember. It can take a while to learn all the policies. I myself worked on the absurd bio of me someone started a few times before I was told (more nicely) it was a "no no." Take your WP:Reliable sources (like solid sources reviewing some of your material), add them to the article talk page. I'm not that familiar with them myself. Anyway, in this case others may be able to save the article for you. Also posted a note here and perhaps some poetry fan who edits can help you out: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poetry#Afd_Laura_McCullough Carolmooredc (Talkie-Talkie) 20:38, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Lmccullough. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Laura McCullough, you may have a conflict of interest.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Shakehandsman (talk) 06:46, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Laura McCullough. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – 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 (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its 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 my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:02, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Attack on women writers

I've had multiple flags on my page in one day, suggesting something more systematic than someone trying to maintain page integrity. A search on the Internet one the names of those who flagged this revealed people with their own biases against women and Muslims and progressives who have done this to others. The notation is that my page is for a minor poet. The fact is, most poets are minor while alive; very few become famous. The page does not represent a COI as it is unbiased in affect: all facts are cited. All poets are minor while alive. I am a midcareer poet with several books, award, fellowships or scholarships, and two edited anthologies with University presses. The credentials are on par with many other poets of the same career stature, and in fact, this smacks of a systematic attack on women writers. Since the credentials here are analogous to those of male poets of the same career stature on Wikipedia, this page should not be deleted. Thank you. Laura McCullough — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmccullough (talk • contribs)

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Welcome edits and clean ups!!

If Orange Mike or others see things on this page requiring clean up or correction, I welcome that. However, calling its existence into doubt is unacceptable an combative. All information on this page is unbiased and factual. If there is something incorrect, please identify. Lmccullough (talk) 15:24, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anyone has complained about anything factually incorrrect in the content of the article. The problem is that it lacks citations to reputable independent sources which demonstrate that its subject is notable, in the sense in which that word is used in Wikipedia. If someone could provide a few such citations, it would (in my opinion) prevent the article from being deleted. I can't help there, I know nothing about contemporary poetry. Maproom (talk) 19:29, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

gender bias

Sent to Wiki help: Please help me resolve an issue. I am having multiple attacks on the wiki page that accurately and verifiable reflects my mid-career poet status. I suspect, after a search on the web, that this is a gender bias attack.

How can this be addressed?

My credentials are on par with male poets at the same career point:

-several books with independent small presses, some award winning -fellowships or scholarships to Bread Load, Sewanee, etc. -two edited anthologies with university presses that contribute to the scholarship in my literary genre.Lmccullough (talk) 15:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are not being attacked at all. See response at Help Desk: Wikipedia:Help desk#Help, it seems I am being attacked as a woman writer.--ukexpat (talk) 16:55, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An important thing to know is that "notability" in Wikipedia terms is not a function of how much work is published by an article subject, it is a a function of how much has been published about an article subject by others. Actually, some of the most difficult defenses to be made Articles for Deletion are for career journalists, due to our sourcing rules. Please don't feel this is a gender thing, it is not; Notability challenges are a common thing faced by young writers of all genders and stripes. best, —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR /// Carrite (talk) 21:00, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Verification, creds, links

I have several books including two anthologies I edited, won two NJ State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one in poetry, won the Kinereath Genseler Award for my book Panic (also a BOTYA finalist) with Alice James Books, and there are a ton of links to my work on line. A quick search pulls these up. If they need to be linked on the page, then that would be great, but calling the page into question is inappropriate as my creds are in line with many other poets' pages:

some Books and anthologies I have written or edited:

http://www.blacklawrence.com/rigger-death-and-hoist-another/ http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/room-and-the-world.html http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/panic/ http://www.blacklawrence.com/speech-acts/ http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/sense_of_regard

Reviews or comments on my work:

http://www.wordforword.info/vol18/Pollard.html http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/laura-mcculloughs-speech-acts/ http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue9/laura_mccullough.html http://contrarymagazine.com/2011/laura-mccullough-speech-acts/ http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/laura_mccullough_reading_recom/

Interviews of me or by me:

http://nanofiction.org/weekly-feature/interviews/2013/10/five-questions-with-laura-mccullough http://tcjww.org/2014/02/10/interview-laura-mccullough/ http://www.poetsandartists.com/laura-mccullough/ http://realitysandwich.com/389/what_men_want_interview_laura_mccullough/ http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_hicok2.php http://poetsonadoption.blogspot.com/2011/04/laura-mccullough.html

Radio or Videos of me or me interviewing other writers:

http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAYKLSZVWo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTrWCIJ8_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sRlWAN2fU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0hTQee-9w

Examples of poems online:

http://goodmenproject.com/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/everywhere-i-havent-been-anywhere-by-laura-mccullough/ http://solsticelitmag.org/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.versedaily.org/2014/aboutlauramccullough.shtml https://www.aprweb.org/poem/speaking-malagasy-isle-vanilla http://www.anomalouspress.org/8/26.mccullough.bowie.php http://www.diodepoetry.com/v4n2/content/mccullough_l.html http://www.drunkenboat.com/db18/laura-mccullough http://www.fishousepoems.org/?artist=mccullough-laura http://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/m-o/laura-mccullough/ http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2010/february-2010/307-laura-mccullough-poetry http://anti-poetry.com/anti/mcculloughla/ http://www.pebblelakereview.com/archive/2009_v6_1_health_wellness/poem_SweetSick.html

http://www.2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/mccullough.html http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=743 http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/fall_2013/contributor/laura-mccullough http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Summer03/LMCunt.htm

http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/fiction_mccullough.shtml

I teach in these two writing venues, one an annual conference, the other an MFA program:

http://www.sierranevada.edu/academics/humanities-social-sciences/creative-writing-mfa/mfa-faculty/ http://wintergetaway.com/poetry-faculty.html

Other things I have written that appear on Web:

http://www.blacklawrence.com/title-as-invitation-poetry-contests-as-dinner-party-by-laura-mccullough/

http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/14/spring/mccullough.php

http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html

107.107.58.92 (talk)

Verification, creds, links

I have several books including two anthologies I edited, won two NJ State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one in poetry, won the Kinereath Genseler Award for my book Panic (also a BOTYA finalist) with Alice James Books, and there are a ton of links to my work on line. A quick search pulls these up. If they need to be linked on the page, then that would be great, but calling the page into question is inappropriate as my creds are in line with many other poets' pages:

some Books and anthologies I have written or edited:

http://www.blacklawrence.com/rigger-death-and-hoist-another/ http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/room-and-the-world.html http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/panic/ http://www.blacklawrence.com/speech-acts/ http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/sense_of_regard

Reviews or comments on my work:

http://www.wordforword.info/vol18/Pollard.html http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/laura-mcculloughs-speech-acts/ http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue9/laura_mccullough.html http://contrarymagazine.com/2011/laura-mccullough-speech-acts/ http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/laura_mccullough_reading_recom/

Interviews of me or by me:

http://nanofiction.org/weekly-feature/interviews/2013/10/five-questions-with-laura-mccullough http://tcjww.org/2014/02/10/interview-laura-mccullough/ http://www.poetsandartists.com/laura-mccullough/ http://realitysandwich.com/389/what_men_want_interview_laura_mccullough/ http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_hicok2.php http://poetsonadoption.blogspot.com/2011/04/laura-mccullough.html

Radio or Videos of me or me interviewing other writers:

http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAYKLSZVWo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTrWCIJ8_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sRlWAN2fU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0hTQee-9w

Examples of poems online:

http://goodmenproject.com/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/everywhere-i-havent-been-anywhere-by-laura-mccullough/ http://solsticelitmag.org/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.versedaily.org/2014/aboutlauramccullough.shtml https://www.aprweb.org/poem/speaking-malagasy-isle-vanilla http://www.anomalouspress.org/8/26.mccullough.bowie.php http://www.diodepoetry.com/v4n2/content/mccullough_l.html http://www.drunkenboat.com/db18/laura-mccullough http://www.fishousepoems.org/?artist=mccullough-laura http://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/m-o/laura-mccullough/ http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2010/february-2010/307-laura-mccullough-poetry http://anti-poetry.com/anti/mcculloughla/ http://www.pebblelakereview.com/archive/2009_v6_1_health_wellness/poem_SweetSick.html

http://www.2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/mccullough.html http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=743 http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/fall_2013/contributor/laura-mccullough http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Summer03/LMCunt.htm

http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/fiction_mccullough.shtml

I teach in these two writing venues, one an annual conference, the other an MFA program:

http://www.sierranevada.edu/academics/humanities-social-sciences/creative-writing-mfa/mfa-faculty/ http://wintergetaway.com/poetry-faculty.html

Other things I have written that appear on Web:

http://www.blacklawrence.com/title-as-invitation-poetry-contests-as-dinner-party-by-laura-mccullough/

http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/14/spring/mccullough.php

http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html

How does this get resolved? 107.107.58.92 (talk) 20:40, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Verification, creds, links

How does this get resolved?

I have several books including two anthologies I edited, won two NJ State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one in poetry, won the Kinereath Genseler Award for my book Panic (also a BOTYA finalist) with Alice James Books, and there are a ton of links to my work on line. A quick search pulls these up. If they need to be linked on the page, then that would be great, but calling the page into question is inappropriate as my creds are in line with many other poets' pages:

some Books and anthologies I have written or edited:

http://www.blacklawrence.com/rigger-death-and-hoist-another/ http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/room-and-the-world.html http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/panic/ http://www.blacklawrence.com/speech-acts/ http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/sense_of_regard

Reviews or comments on my work:

http://www.wordforword.info/vol18/Pollard.html http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/laura-mcculloughs-speech-acts/ http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue9/laura_mccullough.html http://contrarymagazine.com/2011/laura-mccullough-speech-acts/ http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/laura_mccullough_reading_recom/

Interviews of me or by me:

http://nanofiction.org/weekly-feature/interviews/2013/10/five-questions-with-laura-mccullough http://tcjww.org/2014/02/10/interview-laura-mccullough/ http://www.poetsandartists.com/laura-mccullough/ http://realitysandwich.com/389/what_men_want_interview_laura_mccullough/ http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_hicok2.php http://poetsonadoption.blogspot.com/2011/04/laura-mccullough.html

Radio or Videos of me or me interviewing other writers:

http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAYKLSZVWo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTrWCIJ8_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sRlWAN2fU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0hTQee-9w

Examples of poems online:

http://goodmenproject.com/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/everywhere-i-havent-been-anywhere-by-laura-mccullough/ http://solsticelitmag.org/author/laura-mccullough/ http://www.leahbrowning.net/Apple/Fall_2009/Laura_McCullough.html http://www.versedaily.org/2014/aboutlauramccullough.shtml https://www.aprweb.org/poem/speaking-malagasy-isle-vanilla http://www.anomalouspress.org/8/26.mccullough.bowie.php http://www.diodepoetry.com/v4n2/content/mccullough_l.html http://www.drunkenboat.com/db18/laura-mccullough http://www.fishousepoems.org/?artist=mccullough-laura http://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/m-o/laura-mccullough/ http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2010/february-2010/307-laura-mccullough-poetry http://anti-poetry.com/anti/mcculloughla/ http://www.pebblelakereview.com/archive/2009_v6_1_health_wellness/poem_SweetSick.html

http://www.2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/mccullough.html http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=743 http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/fall_2013/contributor/laura-mccullough http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Summer03/LMCunt.htm

http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/fiction_mccullough.shtml

I teach in these two writing venues, one an annual conference, the other an MFA program:

http://www.sierranevada.edu/academics/humanities-social-sciences/creative-writing-mfa/mfa-faculty/ http://wintergetaway.com/poetry-faculty.html

Other things I have written that appear on Web:

http://www.blacklawrence.com/title-as-invitation-poetry-contests-as-dinner-party-by-laura-mccullough/

http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/14/spring/mccullough.php

http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html http://hub.gmnews.com/news/2006-04-06/Front_page/028.html

Lmccullough (talk) 20:47, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, is there a message here?

Hello, did you send me a message? I don't see one. How do I respond? I have sent people a list of some of my creds. I've told other poets and fans that WIKI needs people to comment and weigh in and put whatever is needed on the site on the site. I'm not sure what else I am supposed to do. Thank you. Lmccullough (talk) 02:00, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I moved my message down. It was in the "thread" that said welcome.

When I said "save the article" I meant through improving it, not through going to the deletion page and writing "Keep." Sorry if there was any misunderstanding. As I said on my talk page, it's not a good idea to have friends come and support keeping your article at the deletion page or "learning" how to edit first and only on your article. Technically that is called WP:Canvassing (follow the link). Another "no no." But you are new and these kind of mistakes can be made.

It is best to just make refs available on the article's talk page and encourage current editors to beef up the article. There are a lot of articles, so sometimes it takes a while for the right editors to come along to work on it and get it right. Carolmooredc (Talkie-Talkie) 01:51, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for trying to explain it

I've posted a list of a batch of links I could find that reflect creds, etc. Then I posted on social media--I have about 5K professional and personal connections, and I just told what seemed to be the truth: the page says it wants comments. The people commenting are not personal friends, but they are fans, followers, people who may know me professionally. I told my brother, for example, not to comment, but it seems that people who know my work should be able to post, and a few asked for info they could post, so I posted the links to my work, books, anthologies, reviews, etc. on FB, and if some of them want to go and do that on the page, isn't that okay? I guess I am at a loss about this: I'm a mid career poet and the info on the page is the same as many other mid career writers, and it shouldn't be singled out.

I guess what I am saying is, since WIKI is supposed to be democratic and unbiased, if the page is edited by people who have unbiased, accurate things to post, or who comment about why the page is relevant, isn't that what the note at the top of the page right now is calling for? Thank you, and a few of the other posters who simply commented that the page is factual, not promotional, etc. I don't think I will be editing it though! There are other folks out there who either will or won't, and I am fine with that.

Thank you. Lmccullough (talk) 02:21, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You've been canvassing very heavily elsewhere. Ironically, if you would stop canvassing and engaging in false accusations of sexism and COI edits and general clueless thrashing about, the article might be userfied and re-created in an acceptable fashion. Sadly, your current behavior is interfering with that process. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just one more note-- I really appreciate you taking the time

to explain things. I know you didn't have to, and it's clear the stuff here is pretty complicated. Thanks. Laura

Hi Laura - I'm Dave, known on here as Worm That Turned. I just thought I'd pop by and say "Hi"... I won't try to interfere with Carolmooredc's helping out, she's an excellent contributor and has helped many people in the past, so you're in good hands. If you do need a second opinion though, feel free to drop me a line. There's a lot of helpful people here and it's not terribly complicated - just overwhelming for newcomers. At any rate, I hope things haven't been too unpleasant for you. Best Worm^TT(talk) 07:53, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Another good place for help is WP:The Teahouse. Carolmooredc (Talkie-Talkie) 17:56, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is here. Thank you. Bishonen | talk 08:05, 6 August 2014 (UTC).[reply]

About Wikipedia

Hallo Linda, I've noticed your recent sad saga of interaction with the encyclopedia and your thoughtful statement on Orangemike's page. I also notice that although you've been editing the encyclopedia since September 2011 you've only ever edited the one article, the one about yourself, and then more recently the various talk pages where it's been discussed. You've now said that you see Wikipedia as a wild animal, and not one you're going to try to feed again.

How about giving it another shot: find some neglected but WP:NOTABLE poet, of either gender, any period of history, and create a well-sourced, well-written, article about them. Or expand, with good "Reliable Sources", an existing inadequate stub on one of your poetic hero(in)es? Or pick up any other topic you find under-represented, and start or upgrade its article (if you look at my user page you can see the motley collection of articles I've started over the years). There's certainly a bias in the coverage of Wikipedia towards the topics of interest to the people who edit Wikipedia. There are plenty of tech geeks, plenty of sports fans (unevenly distributed by sport and nationality), plenty of followers of current music. Poetry enthusiasts may be too busy writing or reading poetry. You could help redress that imbalance. It's a different form of writing from creative writing: every fact needs to be sourced, most especially when it's about a living person. Language needs to be plain, crystal clear, aimed at an international audience with no common background. It's a challenge to write good Wikipedia articles, but one well worth taking up. Don't walk away after this experience, but help us to build this amazing, world-wide, free-to-all, encyclopedia. How about it? PamD 22:15, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PS I'm assuming that the IP editor on Orangemike's page is yourself: it's really helpful if you can remember to log on before editing each time, so that it's clear who's saying what and we can see the totality of an editor's contributions. Thanks. PamD 22:38, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In keeping with Pam's advice, you might join WikiProject Poetry. You will learn, contribute, and gain friends. Also, create a userpage for yourself and include the {{User WPPoetryMember}} template. – S. Rich (talk) 02:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with all that is said above.

It may be hard for you to detect it from the noob's point of view, but the entire process may lead to the deletion (temporarily) of the current version, followed by the creation offstage of a new, cleaner and crisper article about you, purged of the promotional efforts of your publishers and the naive but well-intentioned efforts of yourself and your supporters. I have discussions like this all the time with people stunned to learn that when I'm in my melanti as Wikipedian, my political, spiritual, literary and aesthetic opinions are rapidly trumped by Wikipedia's rules and principles, which as you have recognized constitute a flawed, human effort to bring order (but not too much order) to this effort of ours to portray a chaotic and crowded universe. Mayhap you will end up creating an article about the whole thing, for some poetic or academic journal: Should I Have Been Deleted?: Held Hostage at the Hands of the Savage Wikipedians! Or perhaps your muse will help you turn the experience into poetry, mutating frustration into art once more. --Orange Mike | Talk 12:34, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Laura

I have replied to your message on my own talk page. best, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 15:50, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also

I'd strongly encourage you to click on the "red link" of your name in your signature or HERE and start a "User Page." Be sure to identify that you are the same person as Laura McCullough and that you thus have Conflict of Interest with that page. Wikipedia has new Terms of Use rules that require this. You also might want to write a little bit about yourself and your interests. Click on various user pages of others (any signature links to one) and see what other people are doing. A person having a user page in operation is an indicator of good intentions. best, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 16:23, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Account creator granted

After reviewing your request for the "account creator" permission, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things:

• The account creator right removes the limit on the maximum number of new accounts that can be created in a 24-hour period.
• The account creator right is not a status symbol. If it remains unused, it is likely to be removed. Abuse of the account creator right will result in its removal by an administrator.

If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the account creator right. Happy editing! — xaosflux ^Talk 01:18, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]