User talk:Chopianissima

=Hoi!=

It's very nice to hear from you, and I appreciate your taking the time to write. It is not often we editors get the chance to communicate with the subjects of articles; I have from time to time, and always learn something. It must be very strange to come across an article on oneself in an encyclopedia; I cannot imagine how much stranger it must be to see that other editors are voting to delete it!

By means of introduction, I have a user page, with the same name, at nl.wikipedia.org. A nice person translated it for me: nl:User:Paul Klenk (Ik zal deze (nl:) site niet vaak bezoeken; Ik spreek geen Nederlands.)

I was sure the article originated at Wikipedia; Answers.com mirrors our site. But your letter has got me thinking that might not be the case.

Anyway, at Wikipedia, it is very common that people find that others have written articles about them. I have authored pieces on two people I know, James Harris Simons, the mathematician, and John Keston, the runner and performer. I wrote the articles because, as you read them, it is very obvious why they are notable and interesting. Notability is one of the primary things we look for in an subject, and it is, of course, a bit subjective. It is heartening that you freely admit to understanding why, in its current state, the article about you fails to establish enough about you to cross that threshhold. Of course, there is absolutely no reason why more information can't be added. We discourage people from writing about themselves, for obvious reasons, but anyone can edit an article, even without logging in. I have noticed you hvae created an account to contact me. Go ahead and try editing something, at tne English or Dutch Wikipedias. It's very fun! We want good, solid information on a variety of topics. Not everyone has to run a world marathon record or become a billionaire to make it into Wikipedia.

If you know someone who would like to augment your article, feel free to have them do so. If other editors see the changes, they may change their votes. Let me know if I can help. The article I wrote on Sophia Michahelles was up for deletion; this spurred me on to fill in better, solid info and the article is now so much better, and the editors unanimously moved to keep it.

By the way, your user name indicate an interet in Chopin, does it not? I am a pianist and singer, and love music. Yesterday I wrote articles on Ada "Bricktop" Smith and Mabel Mercer; I hope you like them.

Ik hoop iets van je te horen!

paul klenk talk 08:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, it was just deleted. paul klenk talk