User talk:Martinralphharrison
Hi Martiralphharrison, and welcome to Wikipedia. I recently undid (removed) your edits to the article Kevin Hart (poet). This is because the language you added does not conform to Wikipedia's policies that require a neutral point of view. For more information about this policy, please read WP:NPOV. Your edit summary implied that you felt that the article as written contained some NPOV language; if you do believe this to be true, please discuss specific problems on the talk page of that article. Please note, however, that we cannot "balance" one POV with a second, countering POV. If you have any questions, feel free to ask here, on my talk page, or on the talk page of the article. Qwyrxian (talk) 07:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at Martin Harrison (poet). This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.
Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.
If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:55, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The article Martin Harrison (poet) has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. ukexpat (talk) 14:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)