User talk:Brianroberts16

June 2019

Hello. Your recent edit to Birmingham Groves High School appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Although there is a page titled Daniel Roberts, it is a disambiguation page; a kind of index of people with the same name. There are no US government officials on that page. Generally, non elected officials below the first tier (ie director) are not considered notable here. "Notable" on Wikipedia is simply the name for our qualifications to have an article. It's not based on importance or accomplishment or even directly fame. It's based on how much has been written about the subject in reliable secondary sources. Generally lower level government officials are not written about much in detail by sources entirely independent of the subject - sources not related to the subject, his family, his employees past or present. Now if you think you think you can write an article entirely paraphrased from reliable sources, with the vast majority of them totally independent of the subject, you are more than welcome to try. I'd suggest using WP:AFC. If you can successfully write an article about him, then you can add him to this list. John from Idegon (talk) 05:42, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Brianroberts16. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Daniel Roberts, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. If it's just coincidental that you have the same last name as the person you're writing about, I apologize. If it's not, please understand no one here is trying to "diss" your father (?), but simply that we only have articles on certain subjects who meet clearly defined and fair criteria. We also strive to be neutral. It's nearly impossible to write about someone who you care about and remain neutral; even more importantly it's near impossible to separate what you know to be true from what you can verify to be true. That's important because you can only use the latter and cannot use the former at all. John from Idegon (talk) 05:56, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]