User talk:Ivylpage

Welcome

Hello, Ivylpage, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you have edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been reverted for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of deletion, you might like to draft your article before submission, then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. To start creating a draft article, just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit that page as you would any other. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

The one firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing.

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Comments for the article Ivy Page

Hi!

Could you help me with drafting this article? What do I need to do to proceed?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivylpage (talk • contribs) 12:49, February 12, 2010

Actually, the article already exists in the main space. Also, contrary to the note left on your page, no one has threatened to delete the article. The note I left above is customary, to make you aware of the policies and practices here; so you son't get caught off-guard should anyone else have a problem with the article. Anyone else would immediately tell you that you shouldn't have created it yourself, and that the common mantra held here is that if you really are notable, someone else will likely beat you to it.

I'd recommend seeking out review from other users, most effectively done at Wikipedia:Peer review. I'm afraid that I can't offer my own services as my access is intermittent and unreliable. If you can't seem to get comments, I'll see if I can get one or two other admins to look at it for you. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 18:28, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Username

Are you, in fact, Ivy Page? If so, can you contact me personally about this? If not, please change your username as we do not allow the use of notable real living or recently deceased individuals' personal names unless they are those individuals and can prove it. Daniel Case (talk) 00:55, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Advice about your article

I apologise that Wikipedia does not do more at sign-on time to explain what it is not for. The reason is the wish to encourage everyone to edit, and the fear that having to read even half a page of introductory advice might put people off; but the result is that many people sign on thinking that it is a place like Myspace or Facebook for them to write about themselves or their pet projects, and embarrassing situations like this arise.

You could ask for an article to be written at WP:Requested articles, but I have to say that there is unlikely to be a response soon, or indeed at all. This is an all-volunteer project, and people write about what interests them. A better solution would be for me to "userfy" the article for you - move it into a sub-page in your user space - from where there would be a link for you to send it to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user would check it and either accept it or give you feedback.

I should warn you to prepare for disappointment. Wikipedia is quite selective about article subjects, as you will see if you read WP:ANS, WP:AUTHOR and WP:PROF. The references in your article show that you have published, and had reviews on your publisher's site, and have presented at a workshop, but I do not see the substantial independent comment about you required to demonstrate notability in Wikipedia's sense.

I have not checked the other article you mention in detail, but out of 4 million articles going back up to ten years, we know that many are substandard, so that "What about that other article?" is not an argument that is accepted.

Let me know if you would like me to userfy the article for you. You can reply below here - I will watch this talk page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:49, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Advice about your article

Dear JohnCD,

Thank you. I would appreciate it if you would userfy the page. My goal was not to simply use wikipedia as a MySpace or Facebook, but from what I read about notability, I was under the impression that the article met the criteria. Perhaps I was wrong? I have created one article for another poet and never had an issue, but I understand that writing about yourself is "unethical" in this venue. Thank you for your time and insight. Please let me know if there is anything further I should do? Ivylpage (talk) 00:35, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I have userfied the article to User:Ivylpage/Ivy Page. There was a draft already there, but I have put this "on top of it" so that the whole history is there, given it a "userspace draft" template at the top, and made a few small tidying-up tweaks.

In the box at the top is a link "Submit the page!" which will send it, as I described above, to WP:Articles for creation when it is ready. That is the best way to submit an article where one has a conflict of interest, leaving it to an uninvolved user to decide about it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 00:06, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, JohnCD!

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Ivylpage/Ivy Page

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Ivylpage/Ivy Page, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be advertising which only promotes or publicises someone or something. Promotional editing of any kind is not permitted, whether it be promotion of a person, company, product, group, service, belief, or anything else. This is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages — user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources or advertising space. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:03, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]