User talk:WilHarris

A tag has been placed on Wil Harris (Musician), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, articles #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. G e o. 20:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself

Welcome to Wikipedia, but it is not a place like LinkedIn or Facebook for people to write about themselves. It is a different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles (see also WP:MUSICBIO), and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography.

Wikipedia user pages are not like those at social-networking sites. Their use is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST:

"Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account."

You can find out more about Wikipedia at the WP:Welcome page and the WP:Introduction. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:15, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Advice

I am sorry that you are confused, but I am not surprised, because Wikipedia does not do a very good job of explaining in advance what it is, and more importantly what it is not for. There are many sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace which are happy for users to write about themselves, but Wikipedia is different. It is not a social-networking site like them, but a project to build an encyclopedia, and writing about oneself here is very strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at WP:Autobiography.

The best advice I can give you on writing about yourself is, don't. Wait until someone not connected with you thinks you important and significant enough to write an encyclopedia article about you.

Some considerations:

Wikipedia is not a place for you to tell the world about yourself. That's what social-networking sites are for. A Wikipedia article about you will not be your article, it will be Wikipedia's article: others can and will edit it, you will not be able to protect your preferred version, and you may encounter Wikipedia's Law of Unintended Consequences
Wikipedia is quite selective about article subjects: for musical performers, the criteria are at WP:MUSICBIO. If an article does not show that you meet that, it is likely to be the subject of a deletion discussion, which will remain on the record.

If you still want to proceed, you should:

Read the WP:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
Read WP:Your first article for general advice
Read WP:MUSICBIO and assemble the references to independent reliable sources that show how you meet it
Use the WP:Articles for creation process so that your draft gets reviewed by an experienced user
Take care to write from a neutral point of view. An article that tries to puff or "sell" you will not be accepted. No opinions, nothing about your aims and dreams, only plain facts cited to reliable sources. Write not as you telling the world about yourself, but as someone else describing your career, from outside.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:22, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Wilbur Roger Harris.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Wilbur Roger Harris.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]