User talk:Jennifer Bryant

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Hello, Jennifer Bryant, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Jennifer Bryant, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jennifer Bryant


A tag has been placed on Jennifer Bryant 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 band or musician, 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 the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can 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 a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent 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. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:08, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

About your article
Hey, Jennifer, I just wanted to reply to your concerns here, instead of the article's talk page, so that it doesn't get lost should the article be deleted. The problem with your article isn't that you don't exist. The thing is that, at Wikipedia, we don't just have an article about everything; we have a guideline called notability that determines what we have an article about and what we don't. For musicians, we have some more specific criteria that you can find here. An important thing to remember is that notability isn't inherited; a notable relative does not automatically make oneself notable. An underlying idea beneath these notability guidelines is that our policy of verifiability; we need all the information that we host to be able to be looked up and confirmed in a reliable source. Notability helps to ensure that any articles we create will be able to contain information based on significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources. If we can't look someone up in such sources, we just can't write anything verifiable about them, and if there's nothing verifiable, then we have nothing to make an article with. As an aside, it's not recommended to write an article about oneself; it's very hard to make objective judgements about things like notability and verifiability when you're the subject.

Please don't take this personally, though! *Lots* of people have their articles deleted; it's nothing personal! It happens all the time, and really isn't that big a deal. Don't let it turn you off of Wikipedia! What I'd recommend you do is to go off and try to find some subject on Wikipedia that you're interested but not involved in, and make some neutral edits to it. Try to improve the encyclopedia in other places. You'll eventually get the hang of it, and it can be pretty fun! The nice thing is that, although you may not be notable *now*, that doesn't mean you won't be notable in the future. Once you get the hang of Wikipedia and really see how it works, you'll be in a much better position to judge things like notability. If you have any questions (and this can be a pretty complicated place, so it's perfectly okay!), you can try asking them at the Teahouse, where we hosts will be happy to help you with anything Wikipedia! Thanks, Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:33, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Deletions
One was deleted for being promotional, the other but lack of shown significance. However, both were also deleted for being copyright violations. Wikipedia cannot accept text that is copyright elsewhere. Please see WP:COPYVIO. This applies to text you have written yourself if it has already been published somewhere else. As to notability, please see WP:BAND which applies to soloists too. And then there's WP:RS about the reliable independent sources need to prove the notability. Wikipedia is free to edit, but I'm afraid it isn't just a matter of pasting in a bit of stuff from the publicity material. This is an encyclopaedia, not a profile host. Final thing - if you ARE Jennifer Bryant, I must ask you to look at WP:COI (conflict of interest). If you are not, still look at that but also look at WP:USERNAME, as if you aren't Jennifer, you should not be using her name as a username. Sorry to seem so negative to a newcomer, but we do have to point these things out. Peridon (talk) 17:47, 3 April 2012 (UTC)