User talk:Ijohnson222

Hello Ian, and welcome to Wikipedia. I assume you're talking about the article Heurist? I'll try to explain the problems with your article, and the options you have concerning it. If something doesn't make sense, or if you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page.

First of all, I encourage you to read our conflict of interest guideline. In short, editors are strongly discouraged from writing about something they're personally involved with, because this makes it difficult for the editor to strive for a neutral point of view. In general, if your software is notable enough to satisfy our inclusion criteria, it is presumed that someone else will write the article about it.

Secondly, one of the core policies in Wikipedia is that articles must be verifiable from reliable, third-party sources. That means that an outside source has to publish the information before we can use it. If the material is not referenced to third party sources, it risks being deleted. Has your software been the topic of a newspaper article, for example?

As the copyright holder, it is possible to use your own material in Wikipedia, but please note that this means releasing the text under the GFDL and Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License. For more information, see donating copyrighted materials to Wikipedia.

If you think you can find published information about the software from reliable third-party sources, I can undelete the article for you to work with in your own user space. That means that the article would be a subpage of your userpage (for example, User:Ijohnson222/Heurist), until it's ready to be moved into article space. Before moving to article space, you should be able to reference it to third-party sources. Also, the text from your website should either be properly licensed, or paraphrased to avoid copyright issues.

I hope this clears up the issue. Sincerely, Jafeluv (talk) 07:17, 14 September 2009 (UTC)