User talk:Bstewart3

A question about other accounts
I see that in the edit summary you gave when creating your user page you wrote "Why is it being deleted?" but you have never before created any page with this account. What other account or accounts have you used? If you tell me that I will look into the history of pages created by those accounts, and clarify the reasons for deletion. JBW (talk) 09:08, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * It was actually an entry in the catchall Brian Stewart wiki page, I think I have figured it out. Thanks Bstewart3 (talk) 16:54, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, Brian I now see what you are referring to. There are, however, several reasons why the editing which you have been doing doesn't comply with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, which I will outline for you. I am sorry to have to give you such negative information, but it is likely to be more helpful to let you know how things are, rather than to leave you to carry on posting more material which will just be deleted.
 * Wikipedia is not a medium for publishing personal web pages. A Wikipedia user page is for someone who is active in working for the project to give a little information about himself or herself in connection with his or her work for the encyclopaedia: it is not a place to post material unrelated to work for Wikipedia.
 * The page which you refer to as the "catchall" Brian Stewart page is referred to in Wikipedia as a "disambiguation page". Its purpose is to help readers to find the article they are looking for if there are several articles which the term they are searching for could refer to. In this case someone may be searching for any one of several articles about people named "Brian Stewart", and the disambiguation page should just contain enough brief information about each one for a reader to identify which is the one they are looking for; it should contain neither more extensive information than that about subjects of articles, nor any information at all about subjects for which articles do not exist.
 * Wikipedia aims to reflect coverage of topics by independent third party sources, not to act as a medium to publicise what people and organisations say about themselves. Posting information relating to oneself in articles is strongly discouraged, as you will see if you read Autobiographies or Conflict of interest.
 * It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account.
 * For the reasons described in points 1 and 4 above, I'm afraid your user page will have to be deleted. You are, of course, very welcome to start making contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, on subjects unrelated to yourself, if you are interested in doing so, but if you are interested in writing a personal web page, then Wikipedia is not the right place to do so. JBW (talk) 13:23, 10 May 2023 (UTC)