User talk:Andrewlitten

January 2013
Hello, Andrewlitten. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. Drmies (talk) 15:21, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Drmies. An edit that you recently made that seemed to be a test has recently been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ''Will you please stop using all-caps. Thanks.'' Drmies (talk) 15:21, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. 99.136.252.89 (talk) 23:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * My suggestion is that you stop writing about yourself, and thus avoid the inevitable difficulties entailed by conflict of interest. Thanks, 99.136.252.89 (talk) 23:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. 99.136.252.89 (talk) 00:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:COI, WP:AUTO, WP:PROMO, and WP:SPAM. Thank you! Qworty (talk) 04:30, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Andrew Litten


The article Andrew Litten has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No evidence of satisfying the notability guidelines. The references don't constitute substantial coverage in independent sources.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:08, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I see that you have chosen to ignore the advice you have been given about editing with a conflict of interest. The article which you posted here to promote yourself has, however, been nominated for deletion, and will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Andrew Litten. Please do not remove the articles for deletion notice on the article, but you may contribute to the discussion if you wish to. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:50, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Various points which I hope may be helpful to you

 * 1) Isobel, I have posted a reply at Articles for deletion/Andrew Litten to the comments there which seems to have been by you, although you were not logged in to this account at the time. I hope my comments there will be helpful to you.
 * 2) I suggest that you avoid editing an article, or contributing to discussions about it, both from your account and without logging in, as it may confuse people, giving them the impression that two different people are involved. I am not suggesting that you are attempting to be deceptive, indeed I am sure you aren't, but I am suggesting that it might be advisable to avoid doing anything which might be misleading or confusing. Another advantage of always logging in is that you will get a message telling you if you have new talk page messages. From what you said in the deletion discussion, it seems that you didn't realise there was a talk page, and so failed to read the messages posted here.
 * 3) Using a username which gives the impression that you are someone else is likely to be confusing, and is therefore contrary to Wikipedia's username policy. For years I have regretted choosing a username which gives people the impression that my name is something that it isn't (James B Watson), but at least that is just a fictitious name that I made up, not the name of a real person that I am likely to be confused with, whereas is your case you are not only likely to be thought to be Andrew Litton, but you have been thought to be him. You really should use a different username, whether a real life name such as "Isobel Litten" or something arbitrary, such as "Flying Goose". You could just create a new account, but that might again increase the risk of confusion, and also your existing edits would not be registered as belonging to the account you would be using, so you might like to consider filing a request for your existing account to be renamed. You can do that at Changing username/Simple, and further information is at Changing username. You can easily check if a username is already in use by trying to access the user page. For example, if you click on these links: User:Andrewlitten, User:Flying Goose, you will see the difference between a user who exists but has not created a user page, and a username which does not exist.
 * 4) I am sorry that your introduction to editing Wikipedia has been so negative. As far as writing about your father, then I'm afraid that, although you had the best of intentions, your attempt is almost certainly doomed. If, however, you have an interest in contributing to Wikipedia in other ways, I strongly recommend starting by making small changes to existing articles, rather than writing whole new articles. That way, any mistakes you make will be small ones, you won't have the frustrating experience of losing large amounts of work, and gradually you will learn what Wikipedia's accepted standards are, until after a while you will be able to write new articles without fear that they will be deleted. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:24, 30 January 2013 (UTC)