User talk:Constantinatheo

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Hello, Constantinatheo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited appears to be an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page. If your contributions to an existing article about yourself are undone and you wish to add to it, please propose the changes on its talk page.

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Hi Jimfbleak, I wish to create a wiki page for myself (https://www.constantinatheofanopoulou.com/), as I have seen that many other neuroscientists have done (e.g. Erich D. Jarvis, Bianca Jones Marlin). Why is this not possible if I cite everything written on the page? Should I have someone else do it for me?

best Constantina Constantinatheo (talk) 11:36, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a place for people to create "pages" about themselves. Wikipedia has articles, typically written by independent editors. Those articles summarize what independent reliable sources have chosen on their own to say about a person, showing how they meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable person. Wikipedia has no interest in what someone wants to say about themselves, only in what others completely unconnected with the subject say about them on their own(so no interviews, press releases, official bios, social media, brief mentions, or other primary sources.
 * The best thing to do is not to force the issue, and allow independent editors to take note of you in reliable sources and choose to write about you. Autobiographical articles, while not forbidden, are strongly discouraged, as people naturally write favorably about themselves. In order for you to be successful in writing about yourself, you would need to set aside everything you know about yourself, and only write based on the content of independent sources. Most people cannot do that. If you ask someone to write for you, they would need to declare a conflict of interest.
 * Keep in mind that a Wikipedia article about you is not necessarily desirable. There are good reasons to not want one. You cannot lock it to the text you prefer, or prevent others from editing it. Any information about you, good or bad, can be in an article about you as long as it appears in an independent reliable source. 331dot (talk) 13:01, 22 March 2021 (UTC)