User talk:Craig Brown (Snooker Player)

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Hello, Craig Brown (Snooker Player), and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Craig Brown (Snooker Player), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Proposed deletion of Craig Brown (Snooker Player)


The article Craig Brown (Snooker Player) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:33, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Please do not write about yourself
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 13:06, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Hi, thanks for message. Problems with your article:
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to you, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the you claim or interviewing you. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
 * The two references you put on my talk page don't show that you meet the notability criteria. The first confirms that are an unranked amateur, not notable enough for an article. The second shows you have met someone famous, that doesn't make you famous.
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest when writing about yourself. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that youare notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also guidance for editors with conflicts of interest, writing about yourself and Your first article

Unless you can demonstrate that you meet the notability criteria I've linked above, I'm likely to delete the article anyway, see Criteria for speedy deletion Jimfbleak - talk to me?  13:20, 1 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Also, if you post an article it will be assessed as it stands. If you don't want that to happen, you should write it as a draft. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  13:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Another admin has deleted the article. Unless you can meet the notability and referencing requirements, which seems unlikely, there is no point recreating the page. Note that it is not your page, it is our page about you, and as such it must meet our criteria. This isn't social media, where anyone can write anything Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:47, 1 December 2017 (UTC)