User talk:Epicdaduck

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Fiddle  Faddle  15:27, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

November 2015


A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. Fiddle  Faddle  15:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place for gossip about your friends. Read WP:Biographies of living persons and WP:Guidance for younger editors. JohnCD (talk) 15:56, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

November 2015


A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. Fiddle  Faddle  16:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Please change the approach you are using. It would be silly to get blocked. The only possible outcome at the moment is a block to prevent your editing in this manner. You can prevent this by taking Wikipedia seriously. The route forward is in your hands. Fiddle   Faddle  16:08, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Please stop
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social-networking site for people to write about themselves and their friends. Read the policy Biographies of living persons which includes: "'Contentious material about living persons... that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.'" Also, you should read Guidance for younger editors. JohnCD (talk) 16:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Reply to your question on my talk page
You asked if you could write a page about your friend with his permission. No, sorry, but that's not what Wikipedia is for, as I explained above. For writing about your friends, you want a social-networking site like Facebook. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, which is different. Two of the things that follow from that are:


 * It's choosy about subjects for articles. The test for inclusion is called Notability and looks for references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Reliable excludes Youtube, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also Notability (summary).


 * References are also needed because of the Verifiability policy, which is summarised as "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source". So what you know about your friend, or what he says about himself, can't be accepted because they can't be verified - they are what we call original research.

The links in the Welcome message at the top of the page will tell you more about Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 21:59, 24 November 2015 (UTC)