User talk:OraGordon

December 2023

Hello, I'm Chaotic Enby. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Deborah Oppenheimer have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. ChaotıċEnby(t · c) 02:42, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Your user page

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your user page may not meet Wikipedia's user page guidelines. It is intended for basic information about yourself, your interests and goals as they relate to editing Wikipedia, as well as disclosures of conflicts of interest and paid editing. Although a lot of freedom is allowed in personalizing your user page, it is not:

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Good Afternoon, thank you for your note. I would like to post a page about my father, Alexander Gordon, who is mentioned on other Wikipedia pages, ie "Kindertransport," "HMT Dunera," and "Into The Arms of Strangers." How else can I get his biographical information posted? Appreciate your help. Take care. OraGordon (talk) 18:11, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi OraGordon. Please take a look at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not for some general information, but basically you're going to need to establish that your father satisfies Wikipedia:Notability to avoid anything written about him in any type of detail on Wikipedia being deleted. Wikipedia is, in principle, an encyclopedia and only those subjects deemed to be "Wikipedia notable" according to how it defines "notability" are considered acceptable to write about. Perhaps a sentence about your father on your user page would be acceptable per WP:UPYES, but anything that appears to be an attempt to write an encyclopedic article about him won't. If you feel your father does meet one of Wikipedia's notability guidelines, you can move (i.e. copy-and-paste) the content from your user page onto a draft page and then submit it for review to Wikipedia:Articles for creation when you think it's ready. Before doing that, however, you probably should also take a look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest because it applies to your situation with respect to anything written about your father on Wikipedia. Anyway, the longer you leave your user page in its current state, the greater the chance it will be nominated for speedy deletion. So, you might want to consider moving the content to your user sandbox before that happens. You can then move it to a draft page if you decide to continue to try and create an article about your father. Finally, there might be alternatives to Wikipedia that are more suitable to doing what you seem to be trying to do. There is some information about some of these given in Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:13, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for all the links I need to review. I will do so the week after next if I can't get to it this week. Thank you again. Take care, Ora OraGordon (talk) 21:07, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi. I copy and pasted the page into a Draft and submitted it for review. Appreciate your help. Take care, Ora OraGordon (talk) 22:07, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Alexander Gordon (born Abrascha Gorbulski) (December 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Alexander Gordon (born Abrascha Gorbulski) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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Theroadislong (talk) 22:23, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello, OraGordon! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Theroadislong (talk) 22:23, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi. So, I just want to reiterate some details about this page I created about my father, Alexander Gordon, which has been swiftly declined. He happens to be one of the interviewed subjects in the Academy Award-winning film called "Into the Arms of Strangers." He represents the only individual who traveled on the HMT Dunera. So he was 1 of 2,000 men in the entire WORLD who was on that ship. Books were written about that horrible voyage. A movie was also made about it. A torpedo was shot by the Germans at it and it did NOT blow up. (Besides the fact that he was 1 of 10,000 children to be rescued during WW2 on a Kindertransport. He was also a soldier who translated German spoken by Nazis who had been arrested and were held at Esterwegen Camp.) In this day and age of high rates of antisemitism, records of noteworthy survivors such as his are more important than ever. I find it rather shocking that his story is not worthy of a page on your site. He was witness to horrible events during World War II. He was *NOT* a passing reference. I ask that you reconsider. Thank you for your time. -Ora Gordon OraGordon (talk) 04:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Again,

I wanted to point something out.

My father is listed on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport

When you scroll down to "The Kindertransport Programme in the Media," listed under documentaries, in the third paragraph under "Into the Arms of Strangers," he is one of the notable people in the film. He is deserving of a Wikipedia page and I would like to know how to accomplish that.

Thank you,

Ora Gordon OraGordon (talk) 19:30, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Alexander Gordon (born Abrascha Gorbulski)

Hello, OraGordon. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Alexander Gordon (born Abrascha Gorbulski), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:05, 3 May 2024 (UTC)