User talk:LeRoyMobley

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Hello, LeRoyMobley, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited appears to be an article about yourself. Writing about yourself is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians.

As this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. We require individuals to meet Wikipedia's definition of a notable person to accept articles about them. A 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.

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 * Hi Jim!!! Thank you for soo much for your help. After doing some research I found a possible solution. If my page LeRoy Mobley gets deleted, will you please tell me your rate to create the page and submit it for me? Thank you! :) (LeRoyMobley (talk) 08:33, 10 February 2023 (UTC))
 * It's unlikely that you are noted enough for an article; paid editing is another form of conflict of interest, anyways. I'm sure would agree. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 08:58, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * This is good feedback! Please see my Google Knowledge panel: here I have many articles as well on this google sheet list. Please let me know your thoughts. I want to do things right, and feel led to try setting up my wikipedia page so scams and only true information about me is published. LeRoyMobley (talk) 09:05, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Correction: "no scams" (LeRoyMobley (talk) 09:06, 10 February 2023 (UTC))
 * If you read WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY in it's entirety, you might noticedAn article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing in the "see also" section, which includes the quote:
 * "For example, Tiger Woods is one of the most accomplished golfers, yet his fall from grace is mentioned in his article.[2] Michael Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals in Olympic history, but his drunk driving arrests in 2004 and 2014 and a bong photo published in 2009 are both mentioned on Wikipedia, not violating Wikipedia's BLP guidelines(→). Rolf Harris was regarded as a national treasure for many decades, but his arrest and prosecution for child abuse was widely reported in the mainstream and broadsheet media, and it would be against Wikipedia's neutrality policy to not include it."
 * So, not only are you unlikely to qualify for an article (only a small percentage of people do), but even if you do qualify, every reliably sourced negative thing about you will eventually end up in the article.
 * (There's bolding in the preview of this message for some reason; sorry if it manifests when I hit "publish changes.) I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 09:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks

LeRoyMobley, you have an obvious conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself and read the guidance below:


 * When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.


 * You had no inline references at all. You had a list of what looked like bare urls at the end, but they were not linked to pages and most didn't look like independent third-party sources anyway.


 * It's not clear how you meet the notability criteria linked above, and most of the content seems to be you talking about your self, and is more suited to social media than an encyclopaedia article


 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.


 * Your text, even if it were verified, seems to have little purpose beyond promoting you and your views, self-praise excelling as a songwriter as well. and listing platforms hosting your music.

Paid editing is strongly discouraged, and leads to a block if undeclared.
 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:21, 10 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Understood. Thank you for the detailed reply and hope you have a wonderful day and 2023 beyond! LeRoyMobley (talk) 18:17, 10 February 2023 (UTC)