User talk:Iplant

IPlant
A template has been added to the article IPlant, 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 explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest 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. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. 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. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. VivioFa teFan  (Talk, Sandbox) 19:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
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.) --Fabrictramp 23:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Iplant redux
I'm having difficulties with your Iplant article. It clearly violates the principle that Wikipedia articles need to have reputable published sources, and I'm sure if I nominated it for deletion, it would go. On the other hand, as long as the Wikipedia article doesn't show up on Google with a high pagerank, the article is relatively harmless. Basically I don't particularly want to handle this in a hostile way, but I also don't want to see Wikipedia used as a way to draw attention to an unpublished idea. Can you react to these thoughts? (For what it's worth, I've been maintaining WikiProject Neuroscience for the past few months.) Regards, Looie496 (talk) 16:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)