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• Hi, I'm with LA Freewaves and I went through the exact same thing with User:Kungfuadam. He and User:BigTop nominated my page twice for "blatant advertising" but offered no assistance on how to make the page meet their criteria. The worst part is, one of these guys is 13 years old! It seems like we've put the power of censorship in the hands of our grade-schoolers.--Freewaves 19:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Judging from your user name and the articles you have been editing here, may I refer you to Wikipedia:Autobiography. Please no not write about yourself or your employer. It is considered by many of us to be a violation of the WP:NPOV rule. There are millions of articles for you to edit here. - Davodd 19:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Davodd, thanks for the comment - I have usually felt a bit intimidated by the Wikipedia boldness but am trying to embrace it. I have started to add some comments on other areas of interest - in the past I did not as I felt a bit unqualified to do that. There was an AfD discussion that involved Out Now Consulting earlier this month and it was made very clear to all there who I am and my involvement with that article. The changes I made on the weekend related to a different 'Out Now' - a magazine that is published in the US and to avoid confusion I added a disambiguation link. They are nothing to do with Out Now Consulting though. I corrected their title to correctly reflect their magazine's name (as per their Media Kit) and added the disambiguation. One of my other (varied) passions is music so added an entry about the disbanding of Macquarie Trio today and added an additional citation to the Wal-Mart article regarding their new gay market steps. I will feel a bit more emboldened in relation to my other topic areas. Relating to Out Now Consulting, the page was subsequently edited by some of the contributors involved in the AfD debate with respect to corporate notability, and I last tidied up some minor text there. Thanks. Out Now 15:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]