User talk:Cdpurifoy

Hello Cdpurifoy, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Cdpurifoy, good luck, and have fun. Wine Guy Talk 08:23, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I just wanted to drop by and thank you for stepping in to clear up the situation surrounding the articles created by Musicedbloggerman. I have withdrawn the WP:SPI complaint. Please understand that it is unfortunately not unusual for a single person to open multiple accounts and/or edit from multiple anonymous IP addresses in an attempt to sway consensus. It initially appeared that this was the case here. I'm glad it's not, and I have withdrawn the case at SPI.

Regarding your article, I'd like first to point you in the direction of a few pages which can help you understand what Wikipedia's policies, guidelines and processes are regarding biographies. Biographies of living persons is our main policy page regarding these articles, and Biographies of living persons-Help is a page created for people such as yourself, who have an article about themselves here and are new to the project.

Once you've had a chance to look at those, here are a few more things to look through. The general criteria that the community uses to establish notability for biographical articles is Wikipedia:Notability (people). The specific guidelines for your article would be either WP:CREATIVE or Wikipedia:Notability (academics), those should give you a good idea of what is required for inclusion in Wikipedia. If you feel that you meet one those guidelines, then it needs to be verifiable in multiple, independant, reliable sources.

I hope you won't take anything that happens regarding your articles personally. As a professional musician myself, I have a great deal of respect for the work you do, and wish you all the best. Wine Guy Talk 08:07, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]