User talk:Johnhiltoniii

Welcome[edit]

Hello Johnhiltoniii and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 16:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May 2010[edit]

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at John Hilton III. 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. ukexpat (talk) 16:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Johnhiltoniii. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback#http:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FJohn_Hilton_III.
Message added 19:26, 17 May 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

File copyright problem with File:Chad Webb.jpg[edit]

Thank you for uploading File:Chad Webb.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. (ESkog)^(Talk) 20:31, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Kim B. Clark PR photo high res.jpg[edit]

Thank you for uploading File:Kim B. Clark PR photo high res.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. (ESkog)^(Talk) 20:31, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Chad H Webb[edit]

The article Chad H Webb has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. I42 (talk) 20:50, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A note on wikilinks[edit]

Hello. When you use wikilinks, i.e. the pair of double brackets, please don't add commas, full stops, etc. inside the brackets. As you have seen, that doesn't work. The [[link]] is just for the title of the article you want to link to. Alternatively you can add some alternative text that the reader will see in the link instead of the full name after a pipe | character: [[Article 123|this text can be added for display]]. Happy editing, De728631 (talk) 21:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 21:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Chad H Webb[edit]

I have nominated Chad H Webb, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chad H Webb. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. I42 (talk) 21:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your wish for changes to article about you[edit]

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. While I was looking at another editor's talk/discussion page I came across a request you made for assistance in making changes to the article about you. For example, I understand from your post to the other editor's talk/discussion page that you recently earned your Ph.D.. ( Congratulations! ) It's entirely reasonable that you should want the article about you to be accurate.

I thought I might be able to help, in a small way, and at least change the article to reflect your new degree status. As you may know, however, I'd need to base that upon information about you from independent, third-party sources that are deemed reliable and verifiable by Wikipedia's ( rather stringent ) standards. It occurred to me that verifying your degree status should be fairly easy through one of BYU's online resources, or that there might perhaps be some BYU document or publication that refers to you as a Ph.D.

So I took a few minutes looking through the BYU web pages for such information, but didn't find it. I'd be surprised if there wasn't some such resource that would suffice; I wonder whether you might be able to point me to that?

If you have any kind of faculty or department page, for example, that would constitute a "reliable source" from Wikipedia's perspective. If there is such a page or supporting document or publically-accessible BYU database entry that confirms your Ph.D., I'd be happy to make that change at least, for you, and perhaps to consider making some of the other changes you'd like, if the information can be similarly documented.

I want to commend you for your exacting integrity in choosing to revert the changes you made to the article about you. Some of the changes were innocuous enough that they could probably have remained, but I honor your decision to revert them, nevertheless. I'll probably go ahead and reinstate one or two of the least controversial points that I can verify. We can also take a closer look together at what information you can reasonably change yourself. User:Sphilbrick was correct in saying, here, that it's permissable in some cases to edit information about oneself.

In the meantime, may I politely suggest that you might like to look at some of the information in Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines about how declare an interest in situations like this? I'd suggest this and especially this declaration would be helpful in understanding how best to make such disclosures. Further, if you're going to be continuing to be involved on Wikipedia, even just with respect to the article about you, or on [[talk:John_Hilton_III | its talk/discussion page], making a similar disclosure on User:Johnhiltoniii your own main ''user'' page. ( If the link to the left is colored red rather than blue, it means that page has yet to be created by you. You can just click on the redlink, edit it to your liking, and save the results. No worries about doing so since it's a your user page; the constraints for user pages are far less restrictive than they are for article pages. )

I was pleased to read that you didn't create the article about you . If anyone who's connected to you or personally known to you edits it, though, then he or she should be very careful to make similar disclosures.

Finally, I'll ask that if you contribute any information or a reply on any talk/discussion page, that you please end your text with a space followed by four "tilde" characters, i.e. with

~~~~

since doing so will automatically append your user id, a date/time-stamp, and a couple of helpful "clickable" links to your own talk page and to a list of your contributions to Wikipedia. That's a standard we all try to adhere to, for the sake of other's convenience.

In accordance with Wikipedia's policies concerning biographies of living persons you can also request that the page about you be deleted, if that should happen to be your preference.

I'm really sorry to have to say so, but in candor I should mention here that it's my cursory and initial impression that the article about you is at considerable risk for deletion due to a failure to meet Wikipedia's rather stringent "notability" and "reliable source" guidelines. I'm going to create a new section on the article's talk/discussion page, to initiate discussion ( primarily with other editors, although you are certainly welcome to participate, too ) concerning your "notability" in terms of Wikipedia. Until that question is resolved by community consensus, though, the article stays, and it should be as accurate as possible. Let's see what we can do together to make it so.

Oh, I'll just conclude by mentioning that you can respond to this message by just creating a new section here, below this one. Clicking the blue-ish "New Section" tab at the top of this page, to the left of the intra-Wikipedia search box, is probably the easiest way to do that. By the way, I've placed this page on my "watch list", temporarily, in order to be sure not to miss any reply you might choose to make. Best regards, Ohiostandard (talk) 04:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback archived[edit]

Hi there.

A while ago, you requested feedback in WP:FEED. Because it has been a while, and you'd received at least some response there, I have now archived the replies in Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/Archive/27. Please do not edit that page though; if you require further feedback, add a new request on WP:FEED.

I am trying to clear the backlogs; it would help us a lot if you could look at the requests from other users on WP:FEED and add any comments to help them out. Anyone can respond there, so please do take a look, and comment on the articles from other people.

If you want help with anything at all, you could either;

Leave a message on my own talk page; OR
Use a {{helpme}} - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put {{helpme}}, and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~~~~ at the end; OR
Talk to us live, with this or this.

The last of those is particularly useful - please try it; pop in now and say hello. Best, Chzz ► 03:08, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]