User talk:Adebe
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New orphan article
[edit]Hello. It's strikingly unusual to see a newbie's first new article adhering closely to standard Wikipedia conventions when the nature of the article makes such adherence even more complicated than it is for most articles.
You'll notice the article now bears an "orphan" tag, meaning unsatisfactorily few other articles link to it. Two things to think about when creating a new article are:
- Which other articles should link to it?
- Which redirect pages should redirect to it? (Often one creates redirects with alternative spellings (including commonplace misspellings) or alternative forms of the name (including misnomers) or synonymous terms, or alternative capitalizations.
Michael Hardy (talk) 17:20, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Writing about yourself and your relatives
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You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Adebe DeRango-Adem. 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. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:35, 17 April 2010 (UTC)