User talk:Epeghin

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January 2011
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 Edward Peghin. 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. Zachlipton (talk) 07:12, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I have removed the warning template it was inappropriate, welcome to wikipedia! Petrb (talk) 19:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Edward Peghin
I marked it for deletion. The other user who restored it should've just marked it for deletion. The above warnings are a little rash. Why do you want it deleted though? It seems like a decent article even if you have a conflict of interest. That won't necessarily get something deleted if it meets our inclusion guidelines. Try using our articles for creation process.--v/r - TP 17:14, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

The page can stay up if it does not offend anyone
Hello and thank you for all your prompt responses. I'm finding it difficult to navigate the system and I'm unsure if I'm even responding to the correct posting. I'm happy to leave the page up but I received such a spanking that I thought it better to delete the page. Please do whatever you see fit. Thank you! Epeghin (talk) 18:28, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say anyone was offended. The first tag is what is called a conflict of interest notification.  It's a generic template that Wikipedia editor's place on user pages when there is a perceived conflict of interest.  The second template should never have been placed on your page, in my opinion, because blanking a page you write is not vandalism.  In fact, it falls specifically under out criteria for speedy deletion.  As long as your page meetings our notability criteria using reliable sources that verify it's authenticity in a neutral way, there is no reason it shouldn't exist.  Feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have any questions.--v/r - TP 18:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)