User talk:Ricklev

March 2013
The article Rick Levine has been deleted, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. In fact, it qualified under two of those criteria: criterion A7, an article about a person, which did not indicate that its subject is important or significant enough to jsutify being the subject of an encyclopaedia article; criterion G4, recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. You can see that discussion at Articles for deletion/Rick Levine, where you will see that the issue was a lack of indication of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines. You should not re-create a page that has been deleted as a result of a deletion discussion unless you can address the reasons for deletion. Not only did the article that you wrote fail to show notability, but my searches very strongly suggest that the subject does not satisfy Wikipedia's notability standards, in which case no article on the subject, however written, would be acceptable. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Rick Levine. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – 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 Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its 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 my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Ricklev. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people or things you have written about in the article Microsurgeon (video game), be careful. People close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may make them mistakenly add overly-flattering or overly-disparaging content. So please read our plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Here's a partial summary of its advice:


 * Be transparent about your conflict of interest.
 * Do not edit articles about yourself, your business, or your competitors.
 * Post suggestions and sources on the article's talk page, or create a draft in your user space.
 * Your role is to summarize, inform and reference &mdash; not to promote, whitewash, or sell.
 * If writing a draft, write without bias, as if you don't work for the company or personally know the subject.
 * Have us review your draft.
 * Work with us and we'll work with you.

Please read the whole guide. It explains how to perform the above seven steps, and provides more advice. See also our policies on conflict of interest, neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography, which everyone must follow.

Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)