User talk:Harvey Black

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Harvey Black


A tag has been placed on User:Harvey Black requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --86.139.14.83 (talk) 16:25, 29 March 2015 (UTC) I have to confess to being new to Wiki, so I am not sure what I am required to do help improve my site. I am an Author, Harvey Black, and to have site reflecting that.

Going forward, I would like to use some photographs, but haven't yet figured out how to do.

Your patience is appreciated.

Deletion
I'm sorry, but Wikipedia does not allow advertising or promotion (WP:SPAM), and that is what your user page looked like. "Check out his blog...", "Follow the series..." are not what one expects to find in an encyclopaedia. A user page here is for telling other editors something about oneself, and is really for people who are here to work on the encyclopaedia rather than being a free profile service. I'm afraid we get a lot of self-published authors coming here to boost their sales, but very few get articles (I can remember that one was successful, but part of the reason there was that a mainstream publisher had offered to take him on). Not every author with a 'regular' publisher gets an article - please see WP:NAUTHOR about notability for authors, and WP:RS about the reliable independent sources needed to prove the notability. As I said, you are far from being the first to try here, and I can understand why they try, given the need for the publicity that the self-publishing companies don't provide (but regular publishers do, because they've got more money involved in each project...). Anyway, good luck - and keep on trying to get with a mainstream publisher. The percentage per copy is lower, but the difference in sales well covers this. Peridon (talk) 16:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)