User talk:Fox0r 1337

August 2021
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at User:Fox0r 1337/sandbox. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Longhair\talk 23:24, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Reply to Longhair
Thank you very much for your message, Longhair. I understand the caution Wikipedia exercises when dealing with individuals who are contributing to a Wikipedia article about themselves, and I respect your input. I hope you will respect mine, as well, and we can proceed in a way we both agree is fitting. If that means me deleting my draft altogether, so be it. I am willing to do that if you deem it absolutely necessary. I only ask that you hear me out prior to committing to that conclusion.

As a person with formal education in reporting and Communication from a notable American journalism university, I understand the necessity and importance of remaining neutral, objective and non-biased in regard to reporting facts and I realize I cannot do that alone. I only plan to write this article about me to provide a foundation that others may take the baton from and carry on later.

The purpose of me writing this article is not purely self-serving, though to say it is not at all would be a lie. I am not worried about that bias, however, because I realize others can edit my article at will once it is published. Most public figures desire to be recognized and that fact is why many choose to live lives in the public eye. Many public figures are also fearful of being exposed in what they perceive as a negative light and may show unconscious bias or rely on deceptions in regard to the entirety of their personal history in order to maintain a controlled public image. I will do my best to not do that, and plan to document even the "worst of the worst" in my life (I put that in quotes, because everything lies in the eyes of the beholder, and what one person may determine was for the worst, another may determine was for the best).

For instance, I am a felon and have done a year-and-a-half of my life incarcerated. I have done a number of things during bouts of mental illness related to bipolar disorder that have been, at face value, in many's eyes, horrific. Others with a different perspective have found many of those events to be inspiring.

Regardless, I am ready to cite hospital records and court records to ensure these events are recorded, even though they may be embarrassing and regrettable.

I believe that to err is to be human, and the entire reason I have undertaken life as a public persona is to help others who may walk in my shoes after me avoid my own mistakes and needless suffering through exposure and testimony to the truths in my own life. Ensuring that those mistakes are well-documented is paramount to that cause.

It is my understanding that I meet criteria as a high-profile (according to Wikipedia's definition, unless I am misunderstanding them) public figure, so I believe this article is justified. I would be appreciative if someone on your staff, or someone else, would validate and critique anything I post and edit accordingly.

Kind regards,

Fox0r