User talk:William1000

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Herbert P. Wilkins Sr., but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from web sites. For more information, take a look at our policy library. Happy editing! - ulayiti 14:16, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Publicity through Wikipedia
I understand your point of view in wanting to create publicity to your family through Wikipedia. I understand perfectly the feeling of not getting the recognition you deserve, but I also believe Wikipedia is not the forum to vent that feeling. There are probably millions of people right now that feel the same way (myself included), and if they all tried to attain that recognition by writing articles on themselves in Wikipedia, it would collapse into a veritable chaos. I'm sure you understand that, and that is why Wikipedia has a strong policy regarding what are called vanity pages. The creation and editing of Wikipedia articles is constantly monitored by dedicated Wikipedians who take care of taking all the correct actions towards them. This is the reason why Wikipedia is so popular and so effective, and loosening those principles would kind of destroy the idea.

You surely understand that if you are currently not a notable personality (in the sense that the general public is not largely aware of your historical importance, however great it is), you cannot expect to transform yourself into such a personality by creating a Wikipedia article about yourself. Wikipedia has hundreds of thousands of articles, and the chances of a user landing on the article about you or your uncle are extremely small, especially when the articles are not linked to from other, more popular articles. In addition, they are of very limited interest to any readers, and instead pose a strain on Wikipedia's precious server space.

The Votes for Deletion process currently being carried out on one of the articles you wrote is free for any Wikipedia user to vote on. Already the fact that nobody has voted to keep the article at Wikipedia should tell you something about the public's opinions on matters such as this. - ulayiti 18:51, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Duely noted. Best, Bill. Bill Wilkins 03:10, July 23, 2005 (UTC)