User talk:Thomp756

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Proposed deletion of Ian Thompson (author)


The article Ian Thompson (author) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(ring-ring)  20:48, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

July 2017
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(ring-ring)  20:50, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

The article Ian Thompson (author) has been deleted, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, because it was copied from another source. It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account, for the simple reason that very often people come to Wikipedia and falsely claim to have copyright rights that in fact they don't have. In this case, the content is already published on at least two web sites, at least one of which has a statement about copyright in its "conditions of use & sale" which make it clear that the content is not licensed under terms compatible with Wikipedia's reuse terms.

Although the speedy deletion was because of the copyright problem, I think it only fair to let you know that in several other ways the page was not suitable as a Wikipedia article, such as lacking references to sources, being written in a chatty way, more like a personal essay than an encyclopaedia article, and so on, so that it would probably not have survived long even if there had been no copyright problem. My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. Of course, that advice may not appeal to you if you have no interest in contributing to the encyclopaedia on other subjects, and are only here in the hope of using Wikipedia to publicise your work, but in that case Wikipedia is not the right place for you anyway, as it is not a medium for promoting, publicising, or advertising one's work or products. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:16, 29 July 2017 (UTC)