User talk:DonBarkman

July 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. However, please note that you should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at Tennessee's 3rd congressional district. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. ''Based on your user name, it appears that you are a candidate for Congress in this district. Adding your name to the article is not exactly the same as creating an autobiography, but the policy is still relevant.''

Thanks for your contribution to updating the article! Orlady (talk) 16:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)