User talk:Dr. Hossein Manoochehri, Ph.D.

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A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Dr. Hossein Manoochehri, Ph.D., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Theroadislong (talk) 08:03, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

What Wikipedia is - and is not
Hi Dr. Manoochehri,

It seems apparent that you are not entirely aware of Wikipedia's purpose, nor of how it works. In the hopes that I can encourage you to make better use of the site, I'd like to take a moment to just explain a few fundamental points to you. The blue links all lead to Wikipedia policies and guidelines, where the points I'm making are explained more fully.

First up, Wikipedia doesn't publish people's research. Your work on archaeology, whilst no doubt academically pertinent to the subject, is not something that Wikipedia will host. Wikipedia collates and reports on research that has already been published elsewhere, in reliable sources. If your work has indeed been published in, for example Near Eastern Archaeology or something similar, then we can use it as a source for our articles, but not as the actual article text.

If your purpose here is to raise awareness of your work, then I'm sorry, but Wikipedia isn't a means of promotion. Whilst a lot of people try to use it to increase the popularity of their film/band/acting career/academic work/company/charity etc., such activities usually end up serving the opposite purpose - their accounts are blocked, and their work is deleted. Using your userpage as a CV, as you have done, is a classic example of this.

Finally, Wikipedia is founded on the principle of verifiability. Whilst we could use a good scholarly article on, say, traditional Iranian clay architecture, such an article would have to cite numerous appropriate sources in order to be retained. Without such sources, there is no way for a reader to assess the veracity of the claims made in the article. Your own work would not be suitable as such a source, since they are self-published - we don't regard self-published works as meeting the standard of reliability required for Wikipedia sourcing.

I hope you'll take the time to read the linked policies and familiarise yourself with Wikipedia's editing guidelines. We'd welcome your expertise, but only if it can be used in accordance with the encyclopedia's processes. If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact me at my user talkpage. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  08:16, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at AfC Traditional (clay) architecture in Iran (September 6)
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Sockpuppetry?
You have created another account with your name User:Dr. Hossein Manoochehri this really isn't allowed and could lead to you being blocked. Theroadislong (talk) 14:55, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I have blocked your alternate account indefinitely. Together with your immediate recreation of your self-promoting userpage, this is enough to cause me to seriously doubt that you are willing to work within Wikipedia's guidelines (or simply unable to comprehend them, which amounts to the same thing). Further infractions will result in your account being blocked; please familiarise yourself with the site's basic policies before continuing to edit. If you would like help, please ask; you are welcome to contact me directly, or you can obtain assistance at the Helpdesk or the Teahouse.Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  18:21, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

To Whom It May Concern/ Wikipedia Team:

Thank you for your clarification about the rule and policies of creating a userpage with the Wikipedia. There are, however, a few points that should be brought to the attention of the Wikipedia Team as a defense for the charges that I am using Wikipedia for "self-promotion" or for "Advertising". Although that looks like it, but that is not true, for the following reasons:

1) I am a published author of 12 volumes of pictorial books for which I worked more than 15 years. Pictorial books are usually produced by the sponsorship of a government or a university or financially strong publishing house. For 1 volume of a scholarly produced pictorial book, between 5 to 20 persons should be hired to perform various tasks related to the production of a pictorial book (--before its publication). For the first time, a free-lanced author has started and completed the production of original, pictorial manuscripts as a post-doctoral, academically oriented project, by the investment of the author for all the costs. The resources that I inputted to complete the 12 volumes ( now published with Amazon/ KDP Select), could have well been used to produce between 200 to 500 books in the West by the use of advanced software such as a dicta-phone and an editing software. Just one picture of a castle in the desert of Iran cost about $500 to travel to that spot by a car rental office (-- no bus, train, car or airplane moves to that location; therefore,a car and a driver should be hired from the nearest city and go to that location and return.) This is just 1 example of about 5000 illustrations about the main features of the traditional architecture in Iran for my books. During the years that I worked on my books, I have not been paid a penny by any person, while a janitor is a Western country earns about $1000 a month and about $12,000 a year and about $120,000 for 10 years. The salary for the holder of a Ph.D. is about $5000 a month, and about $60,000 a year. For more than 20 years working on the production and completion of 20 volumes of architectural books ( 12 volumes of which are now published by Amazon and can be reviewed for free by all people of the world), I must have been paid by a sponsor about $1,200,000 just for time. So far, I have not earned even a penny for my works and my works can be used by all people for free. Introducing my books in Wikipedia, is similar to introduce an author and his work in Wikipedia, i.e., Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell; The Invasion of Body Snatchers by Jack Finny. This, I do not think violates the Wikipedia policy. There is no conceivable financial benefit from the introduction of my books in Wikipedia. Wikipedia has allocated space to even introduce famous pornstars. Does that mean that people that see the picture of a pornstar in a wikipedia page will refer to that pornstar and will offer her money to buy love from her? It is impossible that I sell my book via Wikipedia.

2) I have a personal weblog (www.dr-manoochehri-Phd.co.uk) for two years in which my manuscripts and my resume and a copy of my doctoral degree are presented.

3) 12 volumes of my books are already published by Amazon/ KDP Select.

4) Wikipedia invites all people of the world to create an account. It is written in the top (right) section of the page. When an account is created, the person that creates such account should introduce him/herself. I have created an account, in the userpage of which I have introduced myself and the title of books. It is obvious that people want to know a bit about an author and his/her educational background. I some countries, and I do not mention where, some books are written and published by some interest group that those books are %100 written chatting. They are written by literate people, sometimes with a B.A. degree, to advertise about a topic for their interest. If searched, I am sure that some of this genre of books are also introduced in the Wikipedia. It is very unusual that all the Wikipedia Team become very obsessd to delete my account so that no name of my books appear in the wikipedia.

5) I created the second account so that the articles in the deleted account be transferred to it and be saved.

I hope the above points be read by the team in Wikipedia. If you decide to delete the account, that is fine. I cannot have objection to it. But please make all the review of a person intending to create an account prior to the creation not after the creation. Wikipedia creates accounts for users very freely and easily, but then the team in the Wikipedia exercise the career of deleting accounts and articles.

Sincerely yours, Dr. Hossein Manoochehri

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.70.133.177 (talk) 08:35, 7 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Dr Manoochehri,
 * With regards to points one to three of your response above, I would reiterate that Wikipedia does not use or publish self-published works. I don't doubt the effort, both personal and financial, that must have gone into your books, but the fact is that until they are published by a reputable academic publishing house, they do not meet Wikipedia's standard for sources.
 * As far as self-promotion goes, I apologise if we appear excessively concerned with this, but please understand that we deal with literally hundreds of accounts every day whose sole purpose is to get their name or that of their company into Wikipedia somehow. As a result, we tend to be somewhat over-zealous in preventing promotional activity. That said, there is really no reason to list your books on Wikipedia - you are welcome to use your userpage to say something along the lines of, "I am a researcher into the history of clay architecture in Iran," or something similar, but a complete bibliography of your works doesn't tell other Wikipedia editors anything pertinent about you as a contributor here.
 * Finally, please realise that we are not obsessed with deleting your work or blocking your account. These are avenues of last recourse, and we prefer to avoid using them if at all possible. However, in the event that we find ourselves dealing with an editor who cannot or will not abide by Wikipedia's policies, then regrettably, blocking is sometimes the only viable course of action. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  10:21, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Books put out by means of Amazon/ KDP Select are not "published" in the normal sense of the word; rather, they are self-published, and thus do not attest to anything except the ability of the author to spend enough money to publish him- or herself. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  18:33, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

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