User talk:Markalanders

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Mark Landers

I moved the page back to the original name. "Mark Landers from around the world" is an awkward name for a page and there is no precedent for page names of this type. If you'd like to create an article about yourself, please create a new article--don't add information to an article about another subject (another person--even if they share your name--is another subject). janejellyroll 17:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. If you do decide that you would like to create an article about yourself, please ensure that you meet guidelines for notability first (check out WP:BIO). Right now you're just adding information about your date of birth and your birthplace and there is no information about what might make you especially notable. Please let me know if you have any questions. janejellyroll 17:08, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2007

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Guliolopez (talk) 01:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS. STOP adding this non-notable detail about yourself to existing articles. If indeed you are notable enough for your own article, then create one. Continued edits to existing articles constitutes vandalism. Guliolopez (talk) 01:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please STOP adding this detail. The article you are editing is not open to every Mark Landers in the world to add their own bio detail. This is NOT what Wikipedia is for. Please read WP:COI, WP:NN, and some of the basic WP:WWPIN descriptions of what this project is about. Continue along this course, and you will be blocked. (PS. A sock puppet is an alternative account or IP address used by someone in an attempt to avoid a block or otherwise circumvent 3RR or other policies. It is frowned upon on this project. As is attacking other users.) Guliolopez (talk) 01:30, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

3RR

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Mark Landers. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Guliolopez (talk) 01:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule at Mark Landers. Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

—slakr^\ talk / 23:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What Wikipedia is about

Hi Mark. As noted before, your continued addition of "your own stats" to the Mark Landers article is not appropriate. This article (and Wikipedia in general) is not intended to be a "list" of all persons world-wide who happen to share a name. If you want to include "your stats" somewhere on the project, then please consider using your user subspace to publish a short autobiography (if you must). Continuing to add "vanity" (self-promotion) detail to existing articles is vandalism.

If you want to know more about what this project is (and is not), please read "What Wikipedia is not" focusing on the section that discusses that it is not a personal webspace, blog, etc.

I would also point you to the notability guidelines, and emphasise that, just because you happen to share a name with the subject of a Wikipedia article, doesn't automatically ascribe "notability" to you - such that you can include your detail on that article. (Compare - in the extreme - someone who happens to be called "Bill Clinton". It is TOTALLY inapprorpriate for that person to add "my name is also Bill Clinton" style nonsense to the existing article on the ex-president. As it is vanity, and irrelevant to the titular subject.)

Regards. Guliolopez (talk) 19:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]