User talk:Kathryn Hitchins

March 2018

 * The page Draft:The Girl at the End of the Road has been deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deeltion. There were two reasons for this.
 * 1) The page was unambiguously promotional, which is not permitted by Wikipedia policy.
 * 2) It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account.
 * If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:03, 9 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Very similar remarks to the above apply to the other page you have created (in two copies) and even if (as seems likely) you are the copyright holder of the content you posted there, the copyright notice "© Copyright KA Hitchins l · All Rights Reserved" does not suggest that you really did intend to release it under such a free license as you did by posting it to Wikipedia. I shall therefore delete that too. Also, please don't create multiple copies of the same page. Doing so creates difficulties in keeping track of the history of the pages. Finally, a Wikipedia user page is for someone who is active in working for the project to give a little information about himself or herself in connection with his or her work for the encyclopaedia: it is not a place to post a personal web page, unrelated to work for Wikipedia. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:14, 9 March 2018 (UTC)