User talk:William W Gates

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Hello, William W Gates, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited was User:William W Gates/sandbox, which appears to be an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page. If your contributions to an existing article about yourself are undone and you wish to add to it, please propose the changes on its talk page.

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 * Not exactly an autobiography, but someone related to you? Nearly all of the same cautions apply about conflict of interest editing.
 * But, based on your edit summary, I should tell you that your draft is safely saved as your sandbox in your user space and you can continue to work on it. It is only "published" in the sense that it is saved on Wikipedia's servers and can be seen by other editors if they know where to look.
 * Despite appearing to be a COI biography and the very first edit by this user, it's a good start. We would not normally begin with such an extensive list of employment and publications for a new article and the lack of independent references is something that would absolutely prevent the article from being accepted in its current state.
 * If you have questions about how to proceed from this starting point, feel free to ask at the Teahouse.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 04:20, 13 September 2018 (UTC)