User talk:RoyHowell54

Your submission at Articles for creation: Roy Howell (January 7)
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Dan arndt (talk) 02:35, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, RoyHowell54, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited appears to be an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page. If your contributions to an existing article about yourself are undone and you wish to add to it, please propose the changes on its talk page.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Jimfbleak - talk to me?  09:39, 7 January 2021 (UTC)   You have an obvious conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself, your friends or relatives and read the guidance below:
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
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 * When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.
 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.
 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  09:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

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Please don't remove other editors' messages from my talk page, as you did here. Please add new messages to the bottom of a talk page, with a heading, as it says at the top.

I've already posted guidance above, but here is some more
 * As a paid editor, you have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an person organisation, or otherwise are acting on their behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you do so, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:RoyHowell54. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:     . Please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.
 * Because of your COI you must write as a draft and submit it for review, don't write in article space
 * Your text has no in-line references of any kind,let alone independent third-party sources, so basically we can't verify anything you have said.
 * You have no wikilinks, eg Chicago, Toni Morrison. That, and the lack of references, makes me wonder if it's copied from somewhere.
 * Even if what you have written is completely correct, it's not clear to me how he is notable
 * Your text has lots of opinions, when what we need is facts: many prominent individuals and campaigns... groundbreaking civil rights cases... prestigious... . It also has unsourced negative statements like heroin addicted  [sic] parents... with no evdidence that those statements are true.

I hope this helps Jimfbleak - talk to me?  11:52, 11 January 2021 (UTC)