User talk:Mikecarano

Hello, Mikecarano, 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.

If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on. Again, welcome! Ray Talk 17:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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Response to deletion discussion
In response to your post on Articles for deletion/Mike Carano:
 * Wikipedia has strict standards for biographies of living persons: any material included on such a page must be backed up by reliable sources. The standards for wikipedia are verifiability, not truth.  Whether the information is true or not is irrelevant--what matters is if it can be verified in reliable, independent sources.  If you will stick through the process and start working with wikipedia editors on other articles, you will soon come to realize that there are good reasons for these policies!  Cazort (talk) 18:39, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Mike: Cazort overstates that case somewhat. Truth is not, as Cazort says, "irrelevant", it's actually very important that the information in Wikipedia is factual and accurate.  However, Cazort is correct in saying that for Wikipedia to accept information for its articles, it must be verifiable through citations in reliable sources, and this is even more the case where the subject is a living person.  You might what to check our the policy articles WP:V, WP:RS and WP:BLP for more information to help guide you. Then there is the issue of your conflict of interest.  It's not disallowed for someone to write or edit an article about themselves, but it's generally frowned upon, because it's considered that that person may have problems being unbiased.  Wikipedia wants its articles to present a neutral point of view, and that can be difficult for someone with a conflict of interest.  You probably should take a look at WP:COI and WP:NPOV for more information on those topics. If you have any other questions please feel free to drop me a note. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 09:32, 11 May 2009 (UTC)