User talk:John.curtin.profile

thanks for the input was the whole article wrong?

December 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Rodhull andemu  16:50, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Can you please provide guideness on how to avoid page being deleted? thanks

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from pages that you have created yourself, as you did with User:John.curtin.profile. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 18:52, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Let me add a word of friendly advice: Though it may not look like it on first blush, there are strict policies on what subjects and content can and cannot be included in Wikipedia. In very general terms, before a person, place, thing, organization, or idea can be included in Wikipedia it must have
 * already been recognized
 * as important or significant
 * by objective, independent, and provable third party sources
 * with a established reputation for fact-checking
 * which are independent of both the subject of the article and of Wikipedia itself.
 * That's just a plain-English generalization of the actual rules to give you an idea of what's going on here, so don't rely on it but refer to the actual policies instead. (For a great analogy illustrating these concepts, see WP:SCRABBLE.) Without a working knowledge of Wikipedia policy it can be very frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted. I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at the Article Wizard and Your First Article and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one, they're full of solid gold information. Also, if you've not done so already, you need to read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, What Wikipedia is not, and Conflict of interest policies from beginning to end. Good luck with your editing,  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 18:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

 T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 19:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * It doesn't make any difference if you are the copyright holder or if its use here is totally legal, Wikipedia policy prohibits its use here unless you follow one of the processes  here. Please note, however, that doing so allows anyone in the world to use your online material, not just Wikipedia. There is no other way (at least none that Wikipedia will accept) to give permission in a way that only Wikipedia, but no one else, can use your material. The better and easier course may be to rewrite the material for the article, but be aware in that regard that mere paraphrasing, change of first to third person, changes in verb tense, and similar revisions of the material will be regarded to be close paraphrasing and will not cure the copyright problem; it really has to be entirely rewritten from the ground up. Regards,  T RANSPORTER M AN   ( TALK ) 19:01, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

What Wikipedia is and isn't
I have removed the copyright part of your user page, which would not have been appropriate even if the copyright issue were resolved. I am afraid you misunderstand what Wikipedia is about.

Wikipedia is a collaborative project to build an encyclopedia, and that is all it is. In order to keep to that role, there is a long list of things that Wikipedia is not. It is not a place like LinkedIn for people to post their CVs. It is not a web-host or notice-board for people to put up notices about themselves, their bands, their companies, their charities. It is not a soapbox or means of promotion: the policy on WP:Neutral point of view means that people are discouraged from writing about anything where their close association gives them a WP:Conflict of interest.

Your user name suggests that you thought of your user page as a place to post your profile; our WP:User page policy allows for some personal information there, but it is primarily for communication related to the activity of building the encyclopedia, which is what we are all here for. Specifically, the policy says: "'Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a Wikipedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the project.'" The main part of the encyclopedia consists of the articles - pages that do not start with "User." Wikipedia is selective about article subjects; they need to have WP:Notability, a technical Wikipedia term which is not a matter of opinion but must be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." That requirement is summed up in WP:42, and it applies to good causes as well as to commercial firms, people, bands, and everything else.

I am sorry if this all seems rather negative, but avoiding any misunderstanding now may save trouble and wasted effort. The WP:Five pillars and the WP:Introduction will tell you more about Wikipedia, and there is general good advice on article writing in WP:Your first article.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:09, 14 December 2010 (UTC)