User talk:Rdburns2002

November 2009
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Robert Douglas Burns. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. noq (talk) 16:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Robert Douglas Burns


A tag has been placed on Robert Douglas Burns requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Malcolma (talk) 11:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Swimming Kangaroos
Please note that (people who directly benefit from publicity about subject X) are never the best ones to decide whether (subject X) is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article.

Books published by major publishers tend to have a much better chance of meeting notability criteria than books published by minor publishers... and both have a MUCH better chance of meeting said criteria than books published by vanity publishers or POD houses. (That said, I admit that Swimming Kangaroo seems to be a legitimate publisher; you did the right thing in choosing a publisher who pays you instead of vice versa.)

I still haven't decided whether your book meets notability criteria, though. DS (talk) 15:58, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination of The Unselfish Gene for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Unselfish Gene is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/The Unselfish Gene until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mccapra (talk) 21:01, 18 November 2019 (UTC)