User talk:Hlipshitz

July 2019

Here are three facts about Wikipedia that you need to be aware of, in relation to the page you have created.

• Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. Also, any kind of editing to promote, publicise, or advertise anything is not permitted; that includes creating pages to promote oneself or one's career. 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 or to publish an online CV or résumé, 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, a web hosting service, or LinkedIn. You may have intended the page as a draft for an article, but its whole tone and character were like a résumé or CV rather than like an Wikipedia article.
• If, as appears to be the case, you were writing about yourself, then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way.
• It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, for any purpose whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. Even if you are the copyright owner of the text you have posted, you may not really wish to release it for such very free reuse, and if you do we require proof that you do intend to do so, and that you have the authority to. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account; unfortunately it is very common for people to come here and falsely claim to own copyright that they don't own. However, even if you do own the copyright and wish to license it for free reuse, as explained above it would not be suitable for a Wikipedia article. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:46, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Hlipshitz, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Hlipshitz! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from experienced editors like Worm That Turned (talk). Visit the Teahouse We hope to see you there! Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:05, 22 July 2019 (UTC)