User talk:Jahmon Highbaugh

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jahmon highbaugh


Please do not make statements attacking people or groups of people. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Eeekster (talk) 00:40, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jahmon Highbaugh


A tag has been placed on Jahmon Highbaugh requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. --Davejohnsan (talk) 00:55, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

November 2011
Please do not write an article about yourself, as you did at Jahmon Highbaugh. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. --Davejohnsan (talk) 00:55, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Euthenology - advice
I need first to explain why I have blocked your other accounts and deleted their user pages. Wikipedia is not a site like Myspace or Facebook, where people and organizations set up accounts and use their user pages in order to write about themselves. Wikipedia is not a notice-board of that kind; it is a collaborative project to build an encyclopedia, the users are the individual volunteers who are here to build the encyclopedia, and their user pages are for them to say something about themselves, if they choose, to help communication within the project. They are not for extended autobiographies, or CVs, or any "substantial content... that is unrelated to Wikipedia" - if such material is to go anywhere, it would be in actual encyclopedia articles, if suitable. User accounts whose names are those of organizations or groups are not allowed, and in normal circumstances users should have only one account; so this is the account you should use.

The first problem with your submission last time was that you put on it a notice restricting its re-use. Because the whole point of Wikipedia is to be a free encyclopedia, everything submitted must be made available under the CC-BY-SA license, which allows readers to copy, modify and re-use for any purpose including commercial. Below every edit screen it says "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here." See Copyrights for more detail. If material has already been published elsewhere, it is necessary to make a formal copyright release as explained at Donating copyrighted materials; just asserting permission or authorship is not enough, because we have no way to be certain that someone on the end of a wire is who he says.

But I am not sure it will be worth your while doing that, because of two interlinked Wikipedia policies, which derive from the fact that the business of an encyclopedia is not to publish anything new, but only to summarise what has already been the subject of independent comment:
 * No original research (which is worth reading in full) includes: "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to premiere such a discovery."
 * Notability is a requirement to have a Wikipedia article, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also WP:42.

You should not write about yourself, for reasons explained at Autobiography, and as the founder of the movement, you have from our point of view a WP:Conflict of interest in writing about that. That need not prevent you writing, but you need to be very careful, and follow WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

That introduction is all to explain why I think Wikipedia may not be suitable for your puposes. What I advise you to do is:
 * Consider very carefully whether you can show the significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources necessary to establish that your movement is notable in Wikipedia's terms, and that what you are writing is not original research. If not, you will be wasting your time.
 * If you want to go ahead, first read WP:Your first article
 * Then click on Help:Userspace draft, which will give you a form to start a draft article. There will be a link from that to more advice, and another to let you submit it once finished, when other users will advise you and either accept it or explain why not.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)