User talk:Emily Pfeiffer

MfD nomination of User:Emily Pfeiffer

User:Emily Pfeiffer, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Emily Pfeiffer and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Emily Pfeiffer during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 04:52, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Emily Pfeiffer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 04:53, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Emily Pfeiffer, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: Click here to contest this speedy deletion which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:54, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, but (though we don't explain it to new users as well as we should) this is not a place like Myspace or Facebook for people to write about themselves. It is a different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles (see also WP:CREATIVE), and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography.

I have declined the speedy deletion nomination on your user page, so you can ignore the note immediately above this, but the deletion nomination at the top of the page still applies. The reason for it is that (though, again, this is not well explained to new users, so there is no way you could have known) Wikipedia user pages are not "home pages" such as you have on social-networking sites. They are for the volunteers, who are here to help build the encyclopedia, to say something about themselves and their Wikipedia work, to assist communication within the project. The policy for them is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST:

"Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account."

The links in the Welcome message at the top of this page will tell you more about Wikipedia; if your are interested in film, Wikipedia:WikiProject Film is a group of users who share that interest. Also, I think you should read Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:01, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]