User talk:Matthewvezina

Hi, I assume that you intended the article you created at "Matthew vezina" as your User page. You can now find this article at User:Matthewvezina. --Aleph-4 20:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: removal
70.48.154.213 wrote:
 * I would like to know why my bio was removed? Could you please provide an explanation as others in my situation still have postings available.


 * Thank you in advance for your time,


 * Matthew Vezina

Hi. Wikipedia has policies that determine what is and what is not suitable material for encyclopediaic articles. Biographies in particular need to adhere to a set of notability guidelines; these establish a minimum level of notability (importance or significance) that subjects of Wikipedia articles must have. Wikipedia is not a directory or social networking site, and we cannot and do not intend to allow anyone to have their own article. With over 1.4 million articles already, we need to impose these measures on the creation of new biographical articles to keep the size of the project manageable. Although your actions are undoubtedly important to many people, it is doubtful that you meet our notability criteria (I hold nothing against you personally when I say this; there are millions of other people in a similar situation).

More importantly, however, Wikipedia has a strict policy against the creation of autobiographical articles. There are several reasons why this is discouraged; for example, the material in such an article tends to be biased and difficult to verify, and often constitutes original research, which we also have a policy against. Your article was deleted under our speedy deletion policy, specifically criterion A7 ("An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject"). Our general advice to people who do not have an article about themselves but think they deserve one is "wait, if you are important enough for an article, someone else will write one eventually".

You claim that "others in your situation still have postings available". If this is the case, these articles may also need be deleted under our notability policies, especially if, as with your article, they were created by their subjects. I would be grateful if you could supply links to these articles; alternatively you can take the steps to nominate an article for deletion yourself – see the deletion policy and guide to deletion.

– Gurch 03:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)