User talk:Nemesis, Cape Town

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Speedy deletion of User:Nemesis, Cape Town


The page User:Nemesis, Cape Town has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Girth Summit  (blether) 05:52, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Reply to e-mail
Hi - I received your e-mail. I generally prefer to keep communication on-wiki, so I hope you don't mind me responding to you here.

First, I would advise you to read through the links above, which are helpful, and will explain fully why I deleted your userpage. Key points:
 * Per WP:UP, it is inappropriate to create a user page that looks like an article about somebody. Your userpage can include a little bit of biographical content, but it should be primarily focussed on your editing interests here, not about your off-wiki career.
 * Please read WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. It is strongly recommended that people do not write about themselves, for a number of reasons.
 * If you did wish to write about yourself, you should do it in WP:DRAFT space, and submit to WP:AfC where an unconnected contributor would review the draft before publication.
 * You should be aware that all content needs to be supported by reference to reliable sources. You can't write stuff you know, and then go looking for sources to support some of it; rather, you should collect reliable sources, summarise what they say, and leave anything else out of the article.
 * Now comes the really important bit: you absolutely cannot write stuff about the medical history (including mental health issues) of a living person without it being supported by multiple, exceedingly reliable sources. I cannot restore unsourced content that contained information about the medical history of a living person, and you should not attempt to write that stuff again.
 * I may be willing to restore some of the content of that article to your sandbox - I'll need to read through it again to see how much of it I would be able to restore, without violating the WP:BLP policy myself. If you give me assurances that you have read and understood the links I've given you above, and COI, and that you will abide by them, I'll take another look at the deleted page and see what I might be able to restore. Best Girth Summit  (blether)  18:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much, yes please. This is a biography about myself but after reading what you have sent I can see why it was deleted. I will take the information that was typed and transfer it to a blog instead. Once again thank you. Nemesis, Cape Town (talk) 00:02, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
 * OK - I've restored it to your sandbox. You can find it here. You're welcome to use it on a blog; please don't publish it on your userpage again, or attempt to publish it as an article without getting independent sourcing and putting it through WP:AfC. Best Girth Summit  (blether)  15:23, 24 September 2021 (UTC)