User talk:Basilvsoper

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 11:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Please note that in addition to not starting an article about yourself, you are also not allowed to arbitrarily take over the existing article about somebody else with the same name as you, and rewrite the whole thing to be about yourself instead of the other person. If multiple notable people with the same name have articles, we have ways to resolve that conflict through our disambiguation processes — but you may not simply hijack the existing article about somebody else. Bearcat (talk) 18:22, 2 February 2017 (UTC)