User talk:ChrisBateman

October 2014
Worked on a number of things in the last few months, mostly rather small things (like adding the European lobster to the Blue Lobster disambiguation page). Also reworked the Gamer's Bill of Rights page into a Players' Bill of Rights page that better adheres to Wikipedia guidelines. ChrisBateman (talk)

April 2011
Been working on Professor Walton's page, since I'm exceptionally well qualified to do so. Have his permission for the photo from his homepage. ChrisBateman (talk) 15:01, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

February 2011
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at Chris Bateman. 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.) Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 00:29, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Elizium: I did not create the article, I did not declare myself as 'notable' - my Wikipedia article has been extant for many years. However, it has been stuck at "stub" for all this time, containing information that was old and incomplete. On careful consideration of the issues, I could see no reason that I could not add content to my Wikipedia page in order to help it develop provided that (a) I made it clear that I had done so and (b) I adhered to the moral values of the Wikipedia. I have done both of these things to the best of my ability. It is now up to others in the Wikipedia community to audit what I have done and ensure that it is commensurate with those values. But if the Wikipedia is closed to contributions of this kind, then it risks valuing heresay over fact, which would be a very strange standard for any reference to adhere to.

It is worth bearing in mind that I could have registered under a fake name and controlled my page more or less however I wished. I did not do this - I did not conceal my involvement, I was open about it. I did not violate Wikipedia's moral standards. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to provide an accurate source of information that is freely maintained by volunteers within strictly maintained standards, it seems to me that what I have done here is within the spirit of those goals. Telling me that "someone will create an article about you sooner or later" is a rather disingenuous claim: either the Wikipedia is in the business of cataloguing verifiable facts or it is not. If it is, then my verifiable content is as good as anyone else's, notwithstanding the possibility of loss of neutrality (which any contributor risks, because one cannot be neutral on a subject that one has *chosen* to edit).

Thank you for your attention to this matter; I hope that it can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.ChrisBateman (talk) 18:07, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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Fixed. Cheers DPL bot! ChrisBateman (talk) 13:06, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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