User talk:Gandhi Sarathi
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[edit]Hello, Gandhi Sarathi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Anstalin, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.
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November 2017
[edit]- Recently I noticed that an editor had been repeatedly moving a page around, in some cases to inappropriate titles. At first I thought this was a case of a new editor acting in good faith and not realising that such moves can have disruptive effects, so I put some time and work into drafting a message explaining point by point what the problems were. However, before posting that message I did some further checking of relevant editing history, and I discovered that the editor in question is far from being a naive new user who does not know what is going on. The account which has been doing the disruptive moving is one of a number of accounts which exist with the sole, or in one cae almost sole, purpose of trying to use Wikipedia to create an article about a non-notable person, at least one of the accounts being used by that person himself. Having seen numerous attempts at creating the self-promotional page deleted, under more than one title, the person(s) involved has/have now re-created the page yet again, and moved it around to a number of different titles, including an article title slightly different from the one under which it has been repeatedly deleted. Whether intentionally or not, such moves are disruptive, as they make it difficult for other editors to trace the history of the page.
- The person you have been writing about comes nowhere near to satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and is therefore not suitable to be the subject of an article, no matter how that article may be written. You are, of course, welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but if your purpose is to write a personal web page, then you would be better advised to use one of the many web sites which do provide that sort of service, such as a social network site or a web hosting service.
- If you continue to edit in ways which contribute little or nothing to building the encyclopaedia, while taking up time of other editors who have to clean up after you, then all of the accounts you have used may be blocked from editing, to prevent such waste of time. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:23, 4 November 2017 (UTC)