User talk:Dragbike81

Welcome
Hello Dragbike81, and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope that you have enjoyed contributing and want to stick around. Here are some tips to help you get started: If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code ; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 14:48, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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I am afraid that my welcome was part of my work with the welcoming committee and had nothing to do with your request - it should not be taken as a "green light". Looking at your suggestion, it is unlikely that your book it notable enough to deserve an article, as few self-published books meet the relevant notability criteria. Also, if an article was created, you should avoid editing it as this may result in a conflict of interest. I am sorry that this is the case, but creating this article would most likely result in a speedy deletion.

I hope you still want to edit Wikipedia in spite of this. I also want to let you know that to place an indent, you need to use a colon - : - rather than a space at the beginning of a line. Compare the effects:


 * Colon

Space


 * I hope this helped! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 15:18, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest and autobiography - standard cautions
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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. -