User talk:Patricia D Beard

creating a draft
WP:YFA describes how to create and submit a draft. Creating a draft about oneself is difficult. Success is possible only if people with no connection to you have been published content about you and your work as an author. That content becomes references. Fewer than 1% of autobiography drafts succeed because what you know to be true about yourself and what you have written about your self (website, social media...) count as nothing for being references confirming notability in the Wikipedia sense of the word. David notMD (talk) 12:19, 19 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Would excerpts from reviews or book blurbs serve as references? Patricia D Beard (talk) 12:31, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Reviews could be used, but not book blurbs as they are not independent. Theroadislong (talk) 12:37, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Reviews are potentially valid as refs, paraphrased, not excerpts. A big problem there is that a review might establish notability of a book, but not the author (this happens). What is needed is published content about you, not written by you, and not interviews, either. David notMD (talk) 14:39, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I’m not sure what published content I have about me. Usually, when I speak about my books, there is a bio, but mostly I have book reviews. Can I use content (repurposed) from my website patriciabeardbooks.com? Patricia D Beard (talk) 15:00, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No, that is a primary source, to be clear writing a first article on Wikipedia is the hardest task there is here, writing about yourself is MUCH harder and I have rarely seen it done successfully in 17 years of editing here, I strongly suggest you wait until someone else unconnected with you decides to write an article which could happen once you pass WP:NAUTHOR. Theroadislong (talk) 15:07, 19 August 2023 (UTC)