User talk:Mdelling

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

I notice that one of the first articles you created 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 has been or will shortly be speedily deleted from Wikipedia, but if you want to use the content from it, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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 * It's true that I wrote an article about myself. My intention in doing so was to create a stub which others could edit. Otherwise I, like everyone else, would have simply asked a friend to create a page. I don't really see the point in doing that, or why that makes for an entry that's any more neutral. In fact, I think what I wrote is more neutral than if someone I asked to write it wrote it. Because I'm trying to please Wikipedia and s/he would be trying to please me. ... Why not allow that initial page to exist long enough for me to alert people who are experts in my field, colleagues, etc, and allow the community to edit? I meet the requirements for notability. My entry cited a number of outside sources, and could have cited more. Are you really telling me all I need to do is ask someone else to post the exact same thing and we're kosher? --- Mdelling (talk) 21:42, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Welcome, roadfan!
Hello, Mdelling, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. If you are interested, there is already a community of users who are roadfans or who edit articles about roads, just like you! Stop by any of these WikiProjects &mdash; WP:HWY (worldwide), WP:CRWP (Canada), WP:INR (India), WP:UKRD (United Kingdom), or WP:USRD (United States) &mdash; and contribute. For those in the United States, there is an excellent new user's guide. There is a wealth of information and resources for creating a great article. If you have questions about any of these WikiProjects, you can ask on each project's talk page, or you can ask me! If you like communicating through IRC, feel free to ask questions at as well. Here, there are several editors who are willing to answer your questions. For more information, see WP:HWY/IRC. Again, welcome!  Imzadi 1979  →   00:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)