User talk:Jwisloski

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Speedy deletion of UHAB[edit]

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July 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Urban Homesteading Assistance Board was moved to Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) by Jwisloski (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2009-07-17T21:06:23+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 21:06, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board[edit]

Hi Jwisloski! I saw you created the UHAB article and wanted to thank you! I recently created and have been working on the Crown Heights Tenant Union article and I'm nearly finished with it - I discovered the UHAB article due to their involvement with the CHTU. The UHAB article needs work that I'd be happy to help with; I see you've been inactive recently and haven't touched the article in a while but lmk if you want to collaborate on revamping it! I've got some other articles next on my to-do list but wanted to lyk that it's on my radar and splitting the work would help us get it up to scratch faster. Best, TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 17:29, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I used to work for them and we wanted to put their long historical community-building work on the map (even though marketing really isn't something they do or need to do) - but I don't know much about what they are doing anymore, nor do I know the status of some of those reclaimed coops. I would say yes, but I'm not sure what my primary sources would be, as I had access to news clips and historical information back then due to working there. Now many of the local print sources have put up paywalls. 2601:19B:C600:4A60:7C06:1F58:14DB:9C8B (talk) 00:31, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a busy few days, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Nice! A laudable goal when done properly (though you should declare your conflict of interest on your user page, I've attached a template for that here you can copy over). Personally I don't write about any orgs I'm involved in since it's easier to be objective about them that way. I'm about to find out what sources exist and collate them all, at the moment the document relies a bit too heavily on primary sources as it is. Also, 12ft.io, archive.ph, and archive.org are wonderful for getting around paywalls!

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Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
I used to work for them

TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 15:23, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]