User talk:Stevenrussell40

September 2009
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 band, 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.)  MLauba (talk) 14:44, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Copyright issues
Please note that if you are the author of the material at either http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=111669 and / or http://www.str8uptalented.com/Random.html, you cannot just copy / paste this onto Wikipedia, but need to follow the procedures highlighted at WP:DCM. If you are not, you cannot add material copyrighted to third parties onto Wikipedia at the risk of being blocked from editing.

Last but not least, note that the copied content is, at any rate, unsuited for an encyclopedic article about Steven Russell, as it is overly promotional but also completely devoid of independent, reliable third-party coverage to verify the statements made.

If you need any assistance, you can create a new section here adding helpme below it, and someone will be along shortly to help you. Alternatively, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Cheers, MLauba (talk) 14:50, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

October 2009
Your recent addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. MLauba (talk) 09:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Again, if you own the material, please follow the procedure at WP:DCM before re-adding it. If you have permission from the owner, follow WP:PERMISSION. If you lack both, stop re-adding the content, as copyright violations cannot be kept on Wikipedia for obvious reasons. MLauba (talk) 09:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself
Welcome to Wikipedia, but it is not a place like Facebook or LinkedIn for people to write about themselves. It is a quite different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles, and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Autobiography.

Wikipedia user pages are not like those at social-networking sites. Their use is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST: "'Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account.'" The links in the Welcome message at the top of this page will tell you more about Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 16:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)