User talk:3dCultureKid

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. If you prefer to be unblocked for the purpose of changing your username to a username which complies with our username policy, so that your contributions with this username are recorded as contributions of your new username and rather than creating a new account, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice instead. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 16:08, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

{unblock|reason=My name is John. I am 3dCultureKid which is my online name for many sites. I am not an organization. I am just simply myself. I take my online name from the fact that I spent 15 of my 18 formative years raised in many countries outside the United States. I received the recent notification fro you that the account I created was blocked. Can you please let me know what I can do to have this account unblocked? Thank you.}}

Question on posting guidelines for one who has actually lived part of history?
Thank you for the kindness of your response Alex.

How can an individual such as myself, who has actually lived part of the history that is being told (as my role was in the Argo/Canadian Escapade) article append their account of History to a Wiki article like I attempted to do, and not be in violation of self-promoting?

I did not tell this story for years and would probably not done so without the prompting of friends who are published authors. As evidenced by the Admiral’s letter that accompanied the article I wrote, I did live part of this history as part of the ARGO story. I was one of the featured panelist on a BRATCON radio show on Ex-Pat kids displaced by the Iranian Revolution. The story of my Iran years as a student at the Tehran American Schools during the Iranian Revolution was included an NPR article published last year.

This is not some vain attempt at self-promotion. Having lived part of this history, I would like share that part of the story with others as well. The account as I wrote it has been well reviewed and I even had one of the rescued Americans reach out to me as a result of the posting of this story on Peyvand.com.

Thanks for guiding someone new to the Wiki world. 3dCultureKid (talk) 10:09, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Basically, you can't. The best you can do is point to the reliable sourcing -- in your case, perhaps the NPR article -- on the article talk page, and suggest to other editors that it would be a useful contribution to the article. Bringing autobiographical information to an article can be tricky, but that's probably a good thing. --jpgordon:==( o ) 16:02, 20 January 2013 (UTC)