User talk:Steveniweiss

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., 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.)  ju66l3r 23:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Campusj
A tag has been placed on Campusj, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. ju66l3r 04:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing immediately apparent that makes this article more advertising-like than that about, for example, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. If CampusJ had been the subject of controversies or somesuch, those would certainly be noted, but it hasn't. The only reason I'm the one who made this page is because someone else who'd tried to make one about CampusJ previously hadn't produced one that met the notability standard of several independent articles on the topic, because he didn't know where to find that coverage. That person contacted me, so I put one up myself that was largely similar to his original (but obviously I couldn't make it identical), except that it included several such articles, in order to fulfill the notability standard. I put no personal or qualitative assessments into it; it's strictly a few facts that are indisputable, and some links to stories about it. StevenIWeiss


 * Hello, while I did initially let you know that you should be aware of the conflict of interest guideline for Wikipedia and I also let you know that someone had placed a speedy-delete tag on the article at a later date, I was not the person who added the deletion tag. There are multiple schools of thought on self-serving additions to Wikipedia.  Some believe that any article should be free from the stigma of autobiography or self-creation.  Others feel that as long as the contribution meets all of our other guidelines, then there is no harm done.  Personally, I'm somewhere in the middle.  You should be aware that the article was not speedily deleted because an administrator agreed with what you've essentially stated here (before you had added it).  It has now been submitted for a deletion discussion (a longer and more involved process than the speedy-deletion noted above) here.  Your opinion will be welcome there as the originating author, but please be candid about your involvement in the subject matter and a mea culpa for the CoI breach of wikiquette (followed by a statement that you agree not to edit the article again because of the conflict of interest) might go a long way towards those who are concerned about the article's info and source.  Hope that helps.  ju66l3r 23:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of CampusJ
I have nominated CampusJ, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/CampusJ. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Fritzpoll (talk) 12:37, 19 February 2008 (UTC)