User talk:Alancini

November 2015
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate that you enjoy using Wikipedia, please note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place for blogging or promotion. So please do not try to use Wikipedia to promote yourself or your family, band, product, or company. The subjects of our articles have to meet certain notability requirements and be written from a neutral point of view. Off-topic material may be deleted at any time, even if it's on your user page. We're sorry if this message has discouraged you from editing here, but the ultimate goal of this website is to build an encyclopedia. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:58, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Please stop attempting to promote yourself via inserting yourself into List of graphic designers. There are standards for inclusion of people here on Wikipedia. See Notability (people). Further, writing about yourself here generates a serious conflict of interest. Doing so is fraught with difficulties. Please see Autobiography. If you continue to attempt to promote yourself on this project, you may be blocked from editing. Please stop. If you have questions, ask. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:12, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Alan Cini


A tag has been placed on Alan Cini requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/keeping-up-post-pc-era-alan-cini. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website or image but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Hammersoft (talk) 15:00, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Alancini


A tag has been placed on User:Alancini, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Norvoid (talk) 15:02, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here) --Alan Cini - (talk) 15:04, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

I mistakenly pressed the action button. Re. article found on LinkedIn - I wrote the article.

Alan Cini

This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... (your reason here) --Alan Cini - (talk) 15:24, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

This is my article, also posted on LinkedIn - Alan Cini
 * Even if it is written by you, and you donate the materials to the Wikimedia Foundation, it is not encyclopedic and inappropriate for a biography article about yourself. As is, we have no way of proving you are who you say you are. It's not a question of trust; but being able to prove we have rights to this material. How would you feel if someone stole your work and treated it as their own? That's the situation we face unless we have proof. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:38, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * (ec) Hammersoft says what I was going to - and I would add that there are other, much better platforms for publishing original work of this sort. The links below will point you in the right direction, as far as Wikipedia is concerned. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 15:40, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Writing about yourself
You are welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, but it is not a place like Facebook or LinkedIn for people to write about themselves. It is a quite different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles. Writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Autobiography.

Wikipedia user pages are not like those at social networking sites. Their use is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST: "'Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account.'" You can find out more about Wikipedia at the WP:Welcome page and the WP:Introduction, as well as Wikipedia's plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Thanks. --Drm310 (talk) 15:07, 18 November 2015 (UTC)