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Help me!
I am a nationally recognized large format B&W landscape photographer, with works in a dozen major museums, etc. One of my galleries would like to pay a company to set up a Wikipedia site. Please advise, Philip Jameson, MD

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108.34.132.179 (talk) 18:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You seem to misunderstand the purpose of Wikipedia. It is not a webhost and not social media. This is an encyclopedia that is only interested in what independent reliable sources state about article subjects, and Wikipedia has no interest in what the subject wants to say about itself. If you want to pay someone to write an article, not "site", we cannot prevent it, but whomever you pay can make no guarantees, and must comply with WP:PAID. 331dot (talk) 18:50, 12 June 2019 (UTC)


 * As I said on the IRC help chat, paid editing is not something where we're going to give recommendations. Please note that any paid editor hired by your gallery would need to comply with the disclosure requirements for paid editors.
 * Wikipedia articles should be a summary of what reliable published sources such as newspapers or reputable magazines have reported about the subject. When you have such source that discuss you in some detail, you can ask volunteers to write an article about you (without pay): Find the appropriate sub-page of WP:Requested articles (in your case likely Requested articles/Biography/By profession), add your name at the correct place in alphabetic order with a very short summary of why you might qualify for an encyclopedia article (like the summary above) and with links to the sources (say the best three or four) so the volunteers dealing with article requests have something to go by. Then all you'll have to do is wait. Huon (talk) 20:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)