User talk:Colinswanson

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November 2008
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Mike Doughney (talk) 20:37, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Notable residents of Salinas...
Hi, Colin. The section in Salinas listing residents is clearly named Notable residents. You may not be aware of this, but Wikipedia has some requirements in order to be considered "notable". When you create a name as a wikilink (by surrounding it with double brackets), you can immediately tell if that link has an associated page due to the color. People without their own Wiki page are not yet considered notable, and the color of their link will appear red. We call these "redlinks", and any redlink people in a notable residents section will immediately be removed by trained editors. This does not mean that you are not notable enough for Wikipedia. If you meet the notability guidelines for Wikipedia then a Wikipedia article can be created for you. I must caution you that people are usually chided for creating Wikipedia articles about themselves and their pages are usually speedily deleted due to the inherent Conflict of Interest. You can request that other editors attend to this by following the Articles for Creation instructions. Once an editor has created your article and the article has been vetted (i.e. it is obvious that it passes notability requirements), I would happily add you to the Salinas page. &mdash;  X   S   G   22:08, 9 November 2008 (UTC)