User talk:L RAE BROWN

Welcome
Hello, L RAE BROWN, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created was L Rae Brown, which appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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! Altered Walter (talk) 20:17, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself
I read what you wrote on the article talk page, but I want to save you from wasting your time.

Wikipedia is not a place like LinkedIn or Facebook for people to write about themselves. It is a different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles (see WP:AUTHOR for the notability criteria for authors), and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Autobiography. The links in the Welcome message at the top of this page will tell you more about Wikipedia. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:49, 30 December 2012 (UTC)