User talk:Valverdep

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Hello, Valverdep, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Paloma Valverde, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! ConconJondor (talk) 16:47, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Paloma Valverde


A tag has been placed on Paloma Valverde, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. ConconJondor (talk) 16:47, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

February 2011
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at Paloma Valverde. 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.) Thank you. ConconJondor (talk) 16:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Removing Speedy at Paloma Valverde
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Paloma Valverde, a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. - SDPatrolBot (talk) 17:15, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

The recent edit you made to Paloma Valverde constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Grafen (talk) 17:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Paloma Valverde. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. ” TeLeS ( T @ L C S) 17:19, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I''ve tried to straighten this out, and please accept my apologies if I do not understand the situation. The history of the article mentioned above appears to show that you are the only substantial contributor, and you wish to withdraw the article. We normally permit people do do that, unless the article makes an important contribution to the encyclopedia, and in this case, where you appear to have written an article about yourself, there would be no difficulty; consequently,, I  have just deleted the article.

But it can be restored if you wish. With respect to notability, whether or not you will be considered to meet the requirements of WP:PROF is uncertain. Checking in Google Scholar, I see that you have a number of fairly highly cited publications, with one being very widely cited; however, you are not yet a full professor. You are department chair, but in a medium sized college, not a research university. There is certainly enough to keep the articles and then see if anyone objects, in which case the community will decide. If you do wish an article, you are not really the best person to write it. As WP:COI says, it's strongly discouraged because people rarelty are able to properly and objectively write  an autobiographical article. If you like though, I frequently work in this area, and I will be glad to write the article--you will understand that this is without any promise that it will not be deleted; that will be up to the community, acting in a deletion discussion.

I apologize for the rather confusing notices and warning left above: please don't judge us for it. Most of them were sent automatically; we need a good deal of refinement of our procedures in this respect and we are working on it. Often they are sufficient--sometimes, they do not do justice to the actual situation, which requires judgment. The next step is up to you. If I hear nothing further, the article will stay deleted; If you wish otherwise, let me know on my user talk page. In any case, I strongly urge you to consider expanding and improving our articles on your subject fields--some are fairly good, but there is a great deal more that needs to be done, and we'd be very thankful to have some expert assistance. The general principle is that every gene, enzyme, and metabolic process is appropriate for an article, though sometimes we group related ones in a combination article.  DGG ( talk ) 01:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)