User talk:Philosophymaybe

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 * How could you possibly know who I am or for whom I work? I was trying to create a page for this philosopher. Philosophymaybe (talk) 15:10, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't know who you are or where you work, hence why the message uses words like "may" and "if" a lot.
 * As to what makes me think you may have a conflict of interest:
 * A LOT of people come here to write about themselves or their employers. So when a new user's first edit is to create a draft about a person, company, band, product, etc., it's normal to be suspicious, especially if the person or company is not in the news.
 * It's very common for people who are here to write about a specific person/company/etc. to pick a user name that is closely related to what they are are writing about. Here your first edit is to write a draft about a philosophy professor and you have chosen a user name of "Philosophymaybe".
 * Draft:Carlo Alvaro is sourced only to things he has written and exclusively discusses his views. It reads as if the person who wrote it shares those views and is more interested in spreading those ideas than in describing the life of a notable person that they do not know personally.
 * Again, I do not know who you are or for whom you work, I have noticed some typical warning signs that make me think you may have a conflict of interest, so I have given you some information about how you should handle a conflict of interest, if you do indeed have one. The message also provides additional information that is applicable to all editors, such as the tutorial and manual of style. Do with this information what you will. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 15:23, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Example articles
I noticed your comment here that "I reviewed other Wikipedia entries and they are exactly the same. They talk about a person and all the citations are of those persons' own work or from their respective universities. I am confused." I wanted to help provide some clarification.

You should read Wikipedia's notability guidelines as applied to academics. The core of Wikipedia's general notability guideline is significant coverage in reliable sources that are independant of the subject. For professors and academics, that can be demonstrated by sources showing the impact of their work. This goes beyond a list of "Professor X authored the following journal articles" - it's more like "Professor X authored the journal article Y, which was seminal in its field and was cited by A, B, and C."

I'm not sure which specific other Wikipedia entries you reviewed where all of the citations are to that person's own work or their respective universities, but articles such as you describe should not remain in that state in this Encyclopedia. It's possible that they have slipped through the cracks and haven't been noticed yet. If you want some examples of excellent articles on academics that do meet Wikipedia's standards, take a look at any of the articles on this list or this one. Those are lists of featured articles and good articles about academics. Featured articles and Good articles are supposed to represent the best work of the Wikipedia community.~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 16:54, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Carlo Alvaro (January 7)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Mattdaviesfsic was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Carlo Alvaro and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 19:17, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Carlo Alvaro
Hello, Philosophymaybe. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Carlo Alvaro, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:02, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Carlo Alvaro


Hello, Philosophymaybe. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Carlo Alvaro".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:14, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi how do I hyperlink an item in my infobox? Philosophymaybe (talk) 17:52, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Autobiographies
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at Carlo Alvaro. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 23:39, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * A person called Laura Wright whom I do not know and never met before wrote my page. I did not. Philosophymaybe (talk) 04:29, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Understand the above note is a standard notification regarding the creation and/or editing of autobiographies. It is neither negative or positive. It's intended to be informational. --Hammersoft (talk) 23:39, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * No, I did not create my own page! Someone else did. The only thing that I did was uploading my picture. Philosophymaybe (talk) 04:27, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * But you have edited it. Therein lies the problem. You should be making suggestions for the article to the article's talk page rather than directly editing it. Please do so in the future. Also, I've twice removed the birth date from the article for there not being a reliable source to back it up. It's not that I don't believe you, but rather...do you really want your birthdate out there? If it's already in a reliable source out there somewhere, that's one thing. But, to just add it? --Hammersoft (talk) 18:39, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That's fine, I did not know and now I do. Even better, from now on I will do nothing. Regarding editing, I see the point that one should not edit his or her own page. However, I did not add gratuitous details in order to embellish the page. Rather, the way it happened was this: much to my surprise, I was told that I have a page. Upon reading it, I thought (a) it would be nice to have a picture and (b) it would be helpful to the reader to know that Dr. Alvaro teaches at certain institutions that were not mentioned by the creator of the page.
 * Furthermore, to answer your question about my birth date, I am not worried about showing my age. Maybe it is due to cultural or philosophical upbringing. At any rate, as the DOB does not improves the page, it is fine to remove it.  Philosophymaybe (talk) 23:41, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The DOB is an issue of security, not vanity. See WP:DOB. --Hammersoft (talk) 03:06, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Understood. In that case, then, someone needs to remove from the categories "1974 births", don't you think so? Philosophymaybe (talk) 03:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. --Hammersoft (talk) 04:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)