User talk:Missyjennyb

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Notability
Hi, please note that before you can add wikilinked people's names to articles like you did with Alison Withers, it is probably a good idea to verify and establish this person's notability. DVdm (talk) 11:36, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Withers
[Edit conflict] Hi Jenny, or is it Alison.

I saw your addition to the Withers article – I'm sorry, but I've removed it. That article is about the animal part, and so material about people does not belong there.

If the material was going to be included in Wikipedia, it would go in its own article. However, every article must meet a "notability" test (see WP:NOTABILITY). This means that the subject must be well known enough to have had material published about it elsewhere. I see that an article called Jennifer b has already been deleted for lack of notability.

Another concern is conflict of interest (COI – see WP:COI). Editors are discouraged from contributing on subjects with which they are closely involved. Your user name suggests that you do have such a close involvement... (Perhaps it was also you who started the deleted article?) Here's a standard notice about COI which I've included to save typing: Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. [end of standard message]

My advice is to avoid writing or editing material about this subject altogether. If it is notable, it won't be long before someone else writes an article; if they don't, I'm afraid it suggests insufficient notability.

Best regards, and I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia, Richard New Forest (talk) 12:09, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

User page
You created a page at User:Missyjennyb/Alison Withers. I moved it to where I thought you meant it to be, at User:Missyjennyb. With hindsight this was hasty, and I apologise – I ought not to have interfered in another user's page. Please forgive me.

What you had done by using the slash symbol is create a sub-page of User:Missyjennyb. For all I know this is what you meant to do. (In my haste I did not notice the slash, and what I thought you'd done is create a user page for a non-existent user, User:Missjennyb Alison Withers.) Apologies again. Richard New Forest (talk) 12:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)