User talk:Ian.greenstreet

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An article must have independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references. As a matter of policy, all biographies of living people will be deleted if they do not have references. Although some references were added, I think by another editor, they lacked transparency as just bare urls. The following format shows the ref with its description.

Your article was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of spammy claims lacking in-line references include: ''often referred to as a world expert... set up risk departments of a number of Banks from scratch... he has analysed hundreds of transactions... which was ahead of its time. It reads like aCV, not an encyclopaedia article. "Ian" is unencyclopaedic, "Greenstreet" please.

The lack of wikilinks to other articles makes it look as if it was copy-and-pasted from another, possibly copyright, source.

You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that you are is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

I'll shortly post the deleted text here  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  05:49, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, Ian.greenstreet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created was Ian Greenstreet, which appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself has been or will shortly be speedily deleted from Wikipedia, but if you want to use the content from it, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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