User talk:Jonathan.eisen

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.)  Marasmusine (talk) 18:17, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Michael Zasloff
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Welcome!
Hello, Jonathan.eisen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!  Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 04:40, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi!

So I spotted the SNAFU with Michael Zasloff, and I've put in the "paperwork", if you will, to pave the way for the move to the proper syntax. There's a fair chance that this will be done by the time you read this. Check the Articles for Deletion, or AFD, discusssion for what I've effectively done. For details on our speedy deletion procedures, please see WP:CSD for our speedy deletion policies. Consider, though, this - I haven't read the article we're moving from, so if it's a byte-for-byte copy, then the expected outcome will be that the article is not deleted, and the "wrong" article is simply edited to redirect to the correct point. It'll be pretty much up to our admins on how to proceed from here.

As to requesting deletion, go ahead and read up on WP:AFD for the procedures. For this one, you missed a few key details for things to be set up properly. If you're creating articles, by and large, you probably won't need this unless you come across something that really doesn't belong here. (The Welcome message contains sort of a Wikipedia 101, which will point you to things in this regard.) For your own articles, you shouldn't have to put yourself through the AFD process; if you're the creator of an article and you are the only editor who has made any substantial change to the article, and you just feel that it should be nuked and potentially started over (see WP:TNT for such cases), you can request deletion of a page under Speedy Deletion clause G7 by placing the db-author tag (with the braces) at the top of the page, and then go get a cup of coffee while you wait for deletion. Or, you can edit some other articles, and it'll be dealt with in due time.

(Caveat: Sometimes, "speedy" isn't. It's called this because there is plenty of matierial that finds its way to Wikipedia that not only doesn't belong here, but there's really no point in putting it through a one-week discussion about whether it should be deleted: in short, that such material should be removed is pretty well foregone.  Spam, for instance.  It's pretty well covered in the above policy.  In any case, if it isn't wiped out in a matter of seconds, don't fret - somebody'll get to it!)

Insofar as the work on yourself, I am compelled to emphasize our policy on conflict of interest. The nutshell version of this: we have a policy of writing from a neutral point of view, but even in consideration of being able to remove yourself from yourself (!), sooner or later, if you have an interest to that level in something, it's extremely difficult to write neutrally about it - and when it comes to one's self or one's company, there ain't no bigger conflict of interest. =)

Lastly, when you are working with discussions (including creating an AFD discussion), follow your comments with four tildes (like this: ~ ). This automatically signs with your username, and the date and time you saved your comments. This is compulsory when talking about things around here, for the simple reason that we like to know, at a glance, who says what. Different numbers of tildes do different things, but four tildes is a good rule of thumb.

Hopefully this clears up a few things for you.

Happy editing, and again, welcome!

-- Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 05:00, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Thanks Dennis the Tiger

Done some editing here and there without a login and trying to learn the system now. Figured I should do things under my name as much as possible.

Jonathan.eisen (talk) 06:58, 6 May 2012 (UTC)