User talk:Bellerophontes

Please do not remove maintenance tags placed on articles by others. Those tags - even deletion tags - are there to help the community improve the quality of Wikipedia. This is often done by bringing the article in question to the attention of other editors who can help fix the problem.

While we're at it, since nobody has officially welcomed you yet, I thought I would give you some links you might find helpful as you edit Wikipedia.


 * User tutorial
 * Help desk
 * Policy on maintaining a neutral point of view
 * Policy for content when editing articles and creating new ones
 * Notability guidelines for people
 * Tips for settling disputes
 * Guidelines for properly writing and formatting articles
 * Criteria for Good Articles
 * The Village Pump, our discussion forums

I hope you find these links useful. It looks like you're off to a good start, but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Good luck, and happy editing! Kafziel Talk 08:19, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'm new here and my English isn't perfect either. So I couldn't get the important points from the articles that you linked. The person I have wrote about in this article is my father, so I don't need to find any sources about him, as he is standing right in front of me. So, I hope you can tell me what to do about it. Thanks... Bellerophontes (talk) 08:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * We require sources for all of our articles - we do not allow people to do their own research. If there are no magazine articles, newspaper articles, television stories, etc. about him, the article will need to be deleted. This is to make sure that all of our articles are absolutely true and that anyone who reads them can investigate it for themselves; otherwise, anyone could write whatever they want about your father and you couldn't do anything about it.
 * Also, the fact that he is your father means you are unable to write his biography from a neutral point of view. For these reasons (and others) the article will most likely have to be removed. Kafziel Talk 08:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok, now I understood the details. Sorry for my unsuitable action, and thanks for the information you gave me politely. Bellerophontes (talk) 09:11, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The article has been nominated for deletion here. Your best course of action is probably to go back to the Turkish language Wikipedia and improve the article there. The guidelines for citing sources and notability are in Turkish so you will able to understand them. If that article is improved, someone will eventually translate it and bring it back to the English Wikipedia. Kafziel Talk 19:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)