User talk:Hbernardsmith

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July 2008
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. 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.)  triwbe (talk) 12:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Horace Bernard-Smith
Hello Mr. Smith. I have a sense of deja vu about this - you are not the first "old hack" wanting to leave a record of his life on Wikipedia, and I must say I do have a sense of respect for you (collective you) and would like to help out. Can you add more to save this article from likely deletion. I mean in the way of references (on-line or on paper), e.g. books published, TV program you/he has appeared in, artiles written or photos etc. Anything really to show some notability? --triwbe (talk) 12:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Horace Bernard-Smith
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Horace Bernard-Smith, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. -Phoenixrod (talk) 07:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)