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==Welcome==
Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out more about how to make '''useful''' contributions, take a look at the [[Wikipedia:Introduction|welcome page]]. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something ''notable'', that is, of general interest. Click on [[WP:NOTE|notability]] for an explanation of what that means. Also, it must give independently [[WP:V|verifiable sources]]. Articles that don't meet these requirements are deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:
# To find out more about creating articles, read the [[WP:Introduction|introduction]], [[WP:tutorial|tutorial]], and the [[Wikipedia:Your_first_article|guide to creating your first article]].
# '''Do not write articles about [[WP:AUTO|yourself]]''', your company, your band, or your best friend - that's a '''[[WP:COI|conflict of interest]]'''.
# For experiments, please use the [[WP:sandbox|sandbox]].
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You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at foobaru. 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 Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. The very model of a minor general (talk) 21:18, 5 September 2009 (UTC) {{uw-auto|}}~~~~
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article foobaru, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you.
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