User talk:DerrickMichaelReid

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Hello, DerrickMichaelReid, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page United States presidential election, 2016, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 14:04, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
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September 2015
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Derrick michael reid. 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. 331dot (talk) 14:38, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Derrick michael reid for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Derrick michael reid is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Derrick michael reid until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. - MrX 14:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

This is Derrick Michael Reid, I am a lawyer, among many things. The page simply stated three facts of national interest, and no more. One could argue that just entering your name is "advertising", and as such, 1/2 of wikipedia should be deleted as "advertising". You have many postings regarding Democrat and Republican candidates, and as soon as a Libertarian candidate makes the most modest of post, screeches of "avertising" are heard, in blatant unfair political discrimination, contrary to notions of free speech. Wikipedia can do better. Very Truly Yours, D
 * Did you happen to read our policies and guideline before creating an autobiography, or the note at the top of the article creation page that says: "Before creating an article, please read Your first article."? We require that information be verifiable and that the subject of an article be notable as evidenced by coverage in reliable sources. I doubt that anyone is trying to prevent notable Libertarians from coverage on Wikipedia. - MrX 16:39, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

I tried to edit the page listing "Libertarian Candidates" There are six of us running, recognized officially by the Libertarian Party. The subject page only has one candidate listed, which is wrong, and list none of those actually running, yet, the Republicans and Democrates get a full spread with much information, and each of them have full blown pages.

If you wish to move the information posted on "derrick michael reid" to the Libertarian section of the "presidential candidates", you are of course authorized to do so. I hope this is a reasonable, if not a totally fair, resolution. Very Truly Yours, D
 * The Republican and Democratic parties have many more members than the Libertarian Party, which is why there are more well-written articles about their candidates. It's not fair but everyone does the best they can with the information that they access. Information about candidates from other parties is needed and welcome, but certain minimum requirements must be met, as MrX states above.  331dot (talk) 16:59, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Further, you should review the conflict of interest policy; generally persons should not write articles about themselves. If you truly feel you are a notable Libertarian, you will need to demonstrate that. 331dot (talk) 17:00, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

"The Republican and Democratic parties have many more members than the Libertarian Party" this is of course, direct confirmation of an inherent bias. a few million libertarians apparently dont count, in wikipedia eyes. Keep digging hole, and show your true bias.
 * I don't deny there is a bias. Everything counts, but must meet the criteria that has been given to you- but there is no active effort to keep Libertarians off of Wikipedia.  331dot (talk) 18:04, 26 September 2015 (UTC)