User talk:RalphSmethurst

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Your first edits
Hello Ralph, I'm sorry to have reverted one of your first edits at Diatonic button accordion but there are a couple of problems. The list of notable payers is for people who meet the Wikipedia definition of notability (ie they are well known enough to have a Wikipedia article in their own right, such as Andy Cutting.) I'm afraid I don't think you meet that criterion although if you have reliable sources to the contrary I'll happily eat humble pie!

The second problem is that when you add yourself to lists of notable people, you are editing with a conflict of interest. It's not recommended to write articles about yourself or add your own name or links to articles, because it's nigh on impossible for anyone to be truly objective about their own importance! Much better to let others add the information about you. In June you added this information and it was reverted and I'm afraid it's no more acceptable now than it was then.

I fully realise this will seem rude and unreasonable. But it's one of the ways Wikipedia tries to keep an eye on the quality of articles in general. Please don't add information about yourself again to articles here. Do post on this page (by editing it as you would any other) if you want to respond to this or ask for further advice. Kim Dent-Brown  (Talk)  22:20, 17 September 2013 (UTC)