User talk:Rossmathews

March 2011
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your willingness to participate in improving the site, but please refrain from making autobiographical edits, as you did with these edits to Ross Mathews. Editing an article about yourself, unless to remove things like vandalism or unsourced content, or adding a photo like the one you did, is strongly discouraged. All edits to articles must conform to our policies on no original research, neutrality, and avoid conflicts of interest. Please remember that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a personal webspace provider. If your achievements 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.)

In addition, while relying on an article subject's self-published material, such as their blog, for a limited amount of article content, such as aspects of their personal life, may be permitted, most of the article's content, specifically that which is directly related to why their notable, should employ secondary, and not primary sources, such as articles appearing in publications independent of the subject. It is also important that the sources cited say exactly what the article content says. (There was no mention, for example, of the relationship, occupation, living arrangement or surname of the man named Salvador in the source that was cited to support his mention in the Mathews article.

I apologize if this all seems complex and arcane; Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are really intended to ensure the quality and reliability of its content, and to ensure that articles are not written from a non-neutral point of view. If you come across sources that you feel provide material that would make a good addition to the article, or intend to make a blog entry providing more details on Salvador, it is better to contact an editor who edits the article, either on their talk page, or on the article's talk page, to make things more transparent. If you have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 11:14, 29 March 2011 (UTC)