User talk:Sratzan

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sratzan


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Help me!
Please help me with...

I would like to create my landing page with my bio when someone searches my name.

How do I do that?

For example, I like the Peter Sands page...I am starting the same Fellowship he just completed at Harvard, so I would like to have a page for me when random people search so that they dont just go to Linked in or a university or business..

Thanks,

Scott

Sratzan (talk) 20:24, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Very difficult. Wiki does not like autobiographies Autobiography. You can only have a page if you are notable WP:N, and if you are notable, someone would have written a page about you already. Ron h jones (Talk) 20:42, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but if your purpose is to write a personal web page, then you would be better advised to use one of the many web sites which do provide that sort of service, such as a social network site or a web hosting service. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:02, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Scott, I'm afraid you do not seem to have grasped the point of what you were told above. Many people, including myself, first come to edit Wikipedia with mistaken ideas about what Wikipedia is, and so I have no criticism of you for having done the same, but that does not detract from the fact that you have been mistaken. "I would like to have a page for me when random people search so that they dont just go to Linked in or a university or business" is a good example of one of the things that Wikipedia is not for. There are various web sites that provide the service of hosting information people post about themselves to be seen by people searching for them; LinkedIn is obviously one, and the web site of your journal might like to host a page about you, as many company web sites do, but Wikipedia does not provide that service. As I said above, you are very welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, but those contributions should not be about yourself. I have searched for information about you. I found information about you on numerous web sites, but none of what I saw seemed to me to provide evidence that you satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. However, even if you do, in fact, satisfy those guidelines, you should not be writing about yourself, as articles about people should be neutral accounts from independent third party sources. Another point is that some of what you have written about yourself appears distinctly promotional in character, more like a CV or résumé, intended to impress the reader with the fact that you have been doing noble work, rather than like a neutral account in an encyclopaedia. You may or may not have intended what you wrote to be promotional; if you didn't, then that is a good example of one of the reasons for the conflict of interest guideline's existence, as when one is writing about oneself or something with which one is closely involved it can be very difficult to stand back and see how one's writing will look from the detached perspective of an independent observer. Consequently, in that situation even people who sincerely believe they are writing neutrally and objectively very often produce results which seem to others to be self-promotion.
 * I have no reason whatever to doubt that you have come to Wikipedia in perfectly good faith, sincerely believing that it would be a suitable platform to post the kind of personal information that you have brought here, but I'm afraid it isn't. If you persist in creating user pages of the kind you have done then you are likely to be blocked from editing by an administrator. I hope that won't happen, but please take note of what I wrote in my first message to you, above. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:34, 10 June 2018 (UTC)