User talk:Seitzrussell

Welcome!
Hello Seitzrussell, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. NellieBly (talk) 06:40, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Your additions to Seitz (surname)
I wanted to let you know why I removed the additions you made to our article Seitz (surname). Our guidelines state that such articles should only list persons who are notable enough to pass our notability requirements and have articles written about them. These lists exist not to honor or commemorate people but so that users who can't remember the first name of a certain notable person can find a link to that person's article.

As you can imagine, Wikipedia has tens of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of editors, and because there are so many of us it simply isn't feasible or useful for editors to list themselves or their family members on these surname lists - the lists would go on for pages and pages and lose any usefulness they otherwise would have had. I invite you to read our Manual of Style for lists to see what kind of lists we have on Wikipedia and how eligibility for lists is determined, and our notability requirements to learn more about our notability policies and guidelines. Thanks! --NellieBly (talk) 06:50, 8 January 2012 (UTC)