User talk:Dangerfirebob

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Self Promotion
Wikipedia is not the place for self promotion. Your edits to the fire breather page and link to a wikipedia page that you created about yourself which merely describes your act is not acceptable according to wikipedia guidelines. Please see WP:COS. I have added a deletion template to your personal page and removed your fire breather page edit. If you think this is wrong please follow the instructions on your page about how to challenge page deletion or edit your page in a way that makes it suitable for an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robynthehode (talk • contribs) 07:34, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Clarification of what wikipedia is and what it is not
(Original written on User:RHaworth talk page.) Just thought I'd make a couple of comments as my request for Dangerfirebob page deletion and changes to photo tag has resulted in the above discussion. Dangerfirebob's page may not have been intended to be self promotion but it clearly was according to wikipedia guidelines. Dangerfirebob misunderstands the meaning of self promotion in relation to wikipedia.WP:COI He and all editors should read the wikipedia guidelines on editing before creating pages. We all make mistakes in our editing but the article was a clear case of self promotion (whether it was a named performance character or not). Photos should not be tagged with names of non-notable people.WP:N It can just be a way of self promotion. An encyclopedia is not the place for such material. As regards Dangerfirebob's comment about other editors helping new editors to find places for their non wikipedia style articles - although it is nice to help it is not up to us to suggest places for such material - but here is one suggestion - why not start a blog? Dangerfirebob also misunderstands what biographical writing is about. Anyone can write a biography about a living person.WP:BLP It is poorly researched biographies that are inaccurate or possibly libelous that are the problem. Writing a biography about someone else without their contribution or knowledge is not plagiarism (look up the meaning of the word). Hope all this clarifies some points regarding wikipedia for Dangerfirebob (original of this placed on User:RHaworth talk page). Robynthehode (talk) 08:45, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

For clarity, the response to this can be found here in section 23: User_talk:RHaworth/2014_Mar_29 Dangerfirebob (talk) 09:04, 26 April 2014 (UTC)