User talk:Stephen Gaetz

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Hello, Stephen Gaetz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 17:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This should have been explained

The guidelines to determine whether or not we allow an article to stay are at WP:Notability. In short, a subject is considered notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.

If the site has been blacklisted, someone must have been posting it over and over and over, without getting involved in any discussion that should have occured. That appears to have been HHub (talk · contribs), who appears to have violated our rule about shared accounts in addition to never asking anyone for help. He appears to have been a sockpuppet account for HomelessHub (talk · contribs). Are these accounts affiliated with the project in any way?

At any rate, that account's attempt to make a page can be User:HHub/homeless_hub. The previous attempt does use some promotional language and does not provide any outside sources. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:17, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

November 2011

Hello Stephen Gaetz. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Яehevkor ✉ 17:42, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]