User talk:BobAlberti34

June 2009
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.)  Oscarthecat (talk) 16:45, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I found some sources online at Google Books and at Google News archives.com and added them to the article. Maybe you are or aren't Bob Alberti. I edit as "Edison," but sure as hell I'm not Thomas Edison! If you are Alberti, then you did a nice job of creating a factual article without any hyperbole. Please take a look and see if my additions got anything wrong. If you have a clipfile, the references to stories with significant coverage of the article's subject (rather than just brief mentions) are good to bolster notability. I found a couple of mentions in Billboard of club gigs. Reviews of the autobiography would be good, if from the trade press or music publications. Mentions in books by Skitch, Doc, Carson, Newsome, Steve and Edie, etc might be useful. As noted above, it is preferable for others to do the edits, but the subject of an article can certainly serve up useful references and can call attention to inaccuracies, all on the article's talk page. Edison (talk) 18:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)