User talk:Howbloom

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[edit] Inappropriate username

Your username is inappropriate or too similar to an existing username (see our blocking policy for more information). You are encouraged to create a new account and contribute to Wikipedia under a more appropriate username, and in a constructive manner. See Wikipedia:Username for guidance on selecting an appropriate username. You may also edit Wikipedia without creating an account. You are not allowed to edit Wikipedia under an inappropriate username.

I have also noticed you have been engaging in vandalism[1], please stop pretending to be the publicist Howard Bloom, or prove you are the person at WP:RFC/NAME.

If you want to keep the contributions from your old account for your new one, leave a note there. This can only be done before you create the new one.

Please visit Wikipedia:Changing username for information.

--Manboobies 17:04, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Howard_Bloom_E-mail_One.PNG; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Howard_Bloom_E-mail_Two.PNG Sophy's Duckling 17:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] vandalism?

There seems to be an issue about whether you wrote a chapter on masturbation for the Boy Scout handbook. I looked through the edit history but cannot quite pin down when it was inserted, and it looks like probable vandalism. Could you comment please? Sophy's Duckling 04:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Sophia--I know it sounds like an act of literary vandalism to say that I wrote a chapter on masturbation for the Boy Scout handbook, but that is the very first assignment the Boy Scouts gave me when I worked for them over a summer vacation. Howbloom 20:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
It does seem rather odd. o.O Sophy's Duckling 03:48, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Sophia--hopefully our email exchange has taken care of this. Shifting usernames is confusing and I'd prefer not to do it. Is that ok? Howard Howbloom 20:51, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
As you provided proof you are Howard Bloom, you will not have to change your username. Sophy's Duckling 03:48, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
It is my understanding that the above means that you do not need to change usernames. Best of luck and happy editing. --Kukini hablame aqui 22:11, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions

hi, i found the article about you using the random article button. i noticed when i was reading it that it seemed too long and so i went to the talk page to see if there was a reason. i noticed that some editors had made really uncivil comments, and i decided to stick around to convince you that the wikipedia system is not against you, nor do all wikipedians do that sort of thing. i request that you ignore what the other editors said about your, um, sanity (not to imply that you'd be interested in pursuing such pettiness of course!).

as for the article itself, i think it is definitely too long. i suggest offhand deleting the entire early life section or summarizing it like "you always were fascinated with physical and social science" and not distracting the focus from what you've done to deserve an encyclopedia article. don't worry, you're a published author, what you did way back when will not be lost just because it's not included on wikipedia. in any event, removing the early life section will give them a lot less pretext to make stupid comments and will probably make the cleanup crew really happy. Penguinwithaspear 05:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)