User talk:VVerstraete

October 2021
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at User:VVerstraete/sandbox. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please 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 or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's 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 the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Politanvm talk 22:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

I appreciate your reply. However, this will end my attempt to engage Wikipedia, since autobiographies are not accepted. Verified and well-written autobiographies are as integral to literature as are biographies. Would that Wikipedia would accept the acclaim of respectable sources to validate autobiographical work. Nor do I appreciate that anyone else except myself is a better judge of my lived-experience other than the public testimony of my journey. Perhaps, one day Wikipedia will....