User talk:MichelleTea

Michelle Tea
Welcome to Wikipedia. I have added a welcome message above which contains links to some of Wikipedia's policies and practices. In particular, as you are purportedly editing an article about yourself, you need to familiarise yourself with a couple of policies in particular. These include the policy on no original research - bluntly put, while you may know something about yourself is true, it is important that you can also verify that something is true. To do this to Wikipedia standards you need to cite reliable third party sources. Blogs, personal writings, myspace pages, etc won't do here - and neither will "I know because it's me"!! - third party sources tend to be newspapers, books by other people published by reputable publishers, and so on. Wikipedia also has very strict policies about articles being written and edited from a neutral point of view with no conflict of interest. Translated into the creation of autobiographies, or the editing of articles about yourself, Wikipedia discourages it, but doesn't ban it outright. In particular, if an article about you is blatantly incorrect and libellous you are encouraged to remove this (as is every editor); but you should explain why in the edit summary - and it would be a good idea to also raise this on the discussion page (without, of course, repeating the libel). In serious cases it is possible to ask senior administrators to remove the libellous material completely from the edit history by sending an email to [mailto:info-en-q@wikimedia.org info-en-q@wikimedia.org] with full details. I've linked some key articles and policies to this small welcome text which will help to explain Wikipedia more fully than I can here. In summary - welcome to Wikipedia and I hope you enjoy editing this encyclopaedia. B1atv 07:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)