User talk:Go Gloucester Banshees

Welcome!

Hello, Go Gloucester Banshees, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself. 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.

Gloucester Banshees
I will refer you again to the notes above by Sigma 7 on the guides about how to write pages. In particular:
 * 1) Editing an article that you are directly connected with is extremely frowned upon.  The general rule is that if an article is sufficiently notable other people will write it for you.  If the bulk of the edits come from someone obviously connected with the subject, then it probably isn't that notable after-all and may be nominated for deletion.
 * 2) Please do not delete references from articles. Wikipedia policy is that articles should be referenced with reliable 3rd party sources.  The references show that what is being stated is true and hasn't been made up on the spot. Be warned that removing references may increase the chances of the article being deleted because the subject does not show sufficient notability.
 * 3) Wikipedia is not a mirror of your website or free web-space.  Please do not add links to commercial partners for no other purpose than advertising.
 * 4) Articles should be written in the third person.  i.e. use terms such as "they", "he", or "it" rather than "you", "we" or "I".
 * 5) Template and table notation (that stuff in { and }) takes some getting used to (took me ages).  You may be better off steering clear until you have a better idea of how it works.

Regards

Pit-yacker (talk) 22:43, 26 October 2010 (UTC)