User talk:James Steimle

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Conflicts of interests and autobiographies[edit]

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at James Steimle. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 22:28, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of James Steimle[edit]

The article James Steimle has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Promotional autobiography about a non-notable author

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Toddst1 (talk) 17:50, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

January 2010[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to James Steimle, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

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The following is the log entry regarding this warning: James Steimle was changed by James Steimle (u) (t) deleting 10883 characters on 2010-01-17T01:23:46+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 01:23, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]