User talk:Tom sweet

Welcome!
Hello, Tom sweet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Marchjuly (talk) 04:08, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your user page may not meet Wikipedia's user page guideline. If you believe that your user page does not violate our guideline, please leave a note on this page. Alternatively you may add  to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it, or you can simply edit the page so that it meets Wikipedia's user page guideline. Thank you. - Marchjuly (talk) 04:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Just to further clarify, Wikipedia is not intended to be used as a free web host and individual user pages are not really intended to be used like personal webpages. Editors are allowed to post some personal information on their user page, but generally only brief background information and stuff related to their editing on Wikipedia is considered OK. User pages which look like a "fake article", personal history or CV, etc. are almost always considered unacceptable and usually end up being speedily deleted by an administrator per "Blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a web host". If your user page is the draft of an article that you hope to some day add as an article to Wikipedia, then I suggest you add the template "user draft" (see "Help: Userspace draft" for details) so that it does not get deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, please feel free to post them below and I will try and answer them the best I can. You can also add the template "Admin help" to this user talk page and an administrator will try and assist you and answer any questions you may have. - Marchjuly (talk) 04:48, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Autobiographies, etc.
Hi again Tom sweet.

I mentioned in the above post that your user page looks like a draft for a possible future Wikipedia. The similarity between your user name and the subject of that "draft" makes it seem as if you are Thomas R. Sweet himself. There's nothing wrong with using an editor using their real name as their Wikipedia user name. There are a few possible drawbacks as laid out in Wikipedia:User name policy#Real names, but pretty much the choice is yours. The similarity two names, however, may be problematic for another reason having to do with "Wikipedia:Autobiography". Wikipedia editors are strongly discourage from writing articles about themselves. It's not something that is expressly prohibited, but it is something that can quickly lead to difficulties with other editors because it can be fairly hard to write about oneself in accordance with policies and guidelines. One of these policies has to do with conflict of interest. COI editors often have difficulty distinguishing between what they know to be true and what can be verified by independent reliable sources and writing in a neutral point of view. For those reasons, COI editors often find their edits highly scrutinized by other more experience editors. So, if you really are Thomas R Sweet, I suggest you take a look at "Advice for editors who may have a conflict of interest" and "Wikipedia: Plain simple conflict of interest guide" just to familiarize yourself with what types of edits COI editors are generally allowed to make. - Marchjuly (talk) 00:24, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Db-u5


A tag has been placed on Template:Db-u5 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Marchjuly (talk) 07:19, 19 June 2015 (UTC)