User talk:Koltonmonte
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before the question. Again, welcome! TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 07:12, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Your edits and username
[edit]I am leaving this message here to inform you that based on your username and the article you are editing I feel you may have a conflict of interest here. Before continuing to edit from this account I strongly recommend that you read through our username policy and our conflict of interest guidelines; failure to do so may result in this account being blocked or banned from further editing on Wikipedia on grounds of a conflict of interest. At this point, you are in no trouble, nor will any action be taken against this account; I am merely recommending some reading for you based on my experiences here so that if something happens you do not feel left out of the loop. TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 07:16, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
July 2009
[edit] You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. 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. -- Alexf(talk) 18:33, 25 July 2009 (UTC)