User talk:Msuchard

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Hello, Msuchard, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Marc A. Suchard, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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Proposed deletion of Marc A. Suchard

August 2013

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Marc A. Suchard. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 23:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My deepest apologies for the confusion. My school's administration asked me to provide a wiki page. Please feel free to delete as necessary. If the School wants a page such as Marc A. Suchard, they can ask someone else to write it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msuchard (talk • contribs)

I think you have been thrown a curve ball by your school. You do have sufficient inherent notability for an article here, but they don't seem to understand the ways of Wikipedia. May I suggest you show the folk who made the suggestion to you WP:ACADEME to let them start to understand the area a little better.

One major problem with Wikipedia is that it is, as a community, allergic to autobiographies. It prefers, infinitely prefers, that folk are found notable by others. The rationale is that we are unable to be neutral about ourselves. Who can be? I am wonderful in my eyes, and, though I have faults, they are small ones :) You are doubtless similar in your own eyes. Autobiographies have a nasty habit of boomeranging upon the author, the more so when the notable aspects fo their lives are relatively tiny in the global scheme of things (Don't take any offence at that, I am intending none at all. I am unfamiliar entirely with your work, which may be enormous and vital or may be niche and may have global benefit one day)

What I suggest is that you now choose to ignore anything about yourself on WIkipedia, tempting as it may be to look. You can ask for factual errors to be corrected, of course you can, but avoid authorship! Articles should be fathered, never mothered. Fiddle Faddle 15:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]