User talk:Joselfartist

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.)  98.210.221.74 (talk) 11:23, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

January 2009
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Themfromspace (talk) 19:07, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
I brought up a notice about you at the conflict of interest noticeboard, asking for other Wikipedia editors to take a look at the situation with the Jo Self article and the conflict of interest tag. Themfromspace (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Themfromspace (talk) 22:57, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Camelia tree,,dusk 2007,oil on canvas,24in by 36in, Jo Self 6 040.JPG
Thanks for uploading File:Camelia tree,,dusk 2007,oil on canvas,24in by 36in, Jo Self 6 040.JPG. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information; to add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.

For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 15:06, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Your article is being challenged, please respond appropriately
Hello Joselfartist. While we welcome new contributors, we expect them to follow our policies. The COI tag on Jo Self is a note that the relationship of the creator to the subject of the article needs to be ruled on by experienced editors. It is not up to you to remove that tag against consensus, and in fact, if you continue to remove the tag, you may be blocked for edit warring. Please check the warning provided at uw-3rr. A case has been opened at the WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and you are invited to comment there. If this can be sorted out, and if proper references are supplied, I see no reason the article can't remain. EdJohnston (talk) 16:06, 5 January 2009 (UTC)