User talk:Hackett83
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Gidday Ben, welcome to Wikipedia.
I've moved the page you created about yourself from the article namespace to your user page, as we don't have articles in the encyclopedia proper about people who aren't yet notable. You can put pretty much anything within reason on your own user page though. Hope you like it here at Wikipedia, and feel free to ask me if you want help at my talk page.-gadfium 08:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
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Hello Hackett83, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I suggest you look at the tutorial before you go much further.-gadfium 08:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Notability
Thanks, I got your message. Notability isn't well defined; if you've published several books (and not self-published them) then you may qualify. However, the article you created didn't mention them, and in general, we don't want people producing articles on themselves, because it's very hard to be objective when you write about yourself. If you do have an article about yourself on Wikipedia, anyone can edit it, so it may not be as positive about yourself as you'd like. I suggest you start by adding to existing articles and getting a feel for how things work, and if you do come back to an article on yourself, try to make it fit the same format as other biographical articles here.-gadfium 08:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
You need to at the very least rewrite the article so that it conforms to our Manual of Style (biographies), include in the first paragraph briefly why you are notable, and then expand on that in the rest of the article. I would greatly prefer it if someone who knows of you did that, not you yourself, because it is very hard to be objective about yourself. See Autobiography guidelines.
The current article, as on your user page, looks like the CV of a college student and doesn't explain why you are notable. I've looked briefly at your website, where I got a couple of timeouts and a missing page, so even from there I'm not sure what you do for a living. Are you a journalist or a writer of opinion articles? In general, we expect that writers have a published book (not self-published) to be worthy of an article on Wikipedia.
If you do rewrite the article to conform to the manual of style, I won't delete it again, but it will very likely be put on the Articles for deletion page where people will discuss whether it is worthy of being kept. At present, the article falls under the Candidates for speedy deletion policy under the "unremarkable people" clause. I'm not calling you unremarkable, just saying that the present article doesn't assert otherwise.-gadfium 17:39, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
