User talk:Andrew D Farman

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Wikipedia is not a place to promote your books

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Draft:Armageddon's Song, and I noticed that your username, "Armageddon's Song", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:25, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I see that you're trying to cite forum and blog posts. Any monkey on a keyboard can post on a forum, which is why Wikipedia explicitly rejects such things as sources. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:30, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Andy The Amazon reviews can be submitted by anyone. Amazon don't check these for reliability or do any editorial selection. So we do not count those as independent sources. I was counting arrse.co.uk as a one suitable review, rather than being shady. I will look at your extra links, but you did not put them in your draft. I too would suggest you pick another user name! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:24, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Checking the other links shows the same sort of thing, reviews by random people on the web. One was a blog like review, and arrse is a ctually like Wikipedia, crowd sourced. Look for reviews in newspapers or magazines. Once you put it in the draft and submit it for review again, someone will review it again. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:46, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia is not the most user friendly of systems and I want to change my user account name to that of my own, not Armageddon's Song as that is apparently a breach of the rules. Please help me with... changing the account name to Andy Farman, thank you.

Armageddon's Song (talk) 09:46, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Armageddon's Song, please see WP:CHUS for instructions on how to change your username. Primefac (talk) 10:40, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft

See Wikipedia:Notability (books) and WP:GNG. We are trying to get your draft over the line for these standards. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:02, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]