User talk:Adp78

Welcome!

Hello, Adp78, 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 Bill Pennington, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Stellas4lunch (talk) 20:10, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Bill Pennington

The article Bill Pennington 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. Stellas4lunch (talk) 20:10, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011

Hello Adp78. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Bill Pennington, 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:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. BusterD (talk) 23:38, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to add a personal comment: you write very well, and it's understandable if someone you know is notable enough to appear in an encyclopedia, you'd want the page built nicely. Be proud of the work you submitted. (I'm not sure if what follows is entirely ethical, but my intentions are pure and anyone can read this...) So I'll make you a deal: you try writing on some other pages, and I'll promise to watch and shepherd the page you started. I think you'll find writing Wikipedia articles quite liberating. You can put your work behind you quickly knowing somebody else will just change it later. I think working on stubs in a content area you've studied or already enjoy will give you some successes and encourage you to do more. 100 years from now, the article you created will still be on Wikipedia, be a featured article by then, Mr. Pennington surely winning a Pulitzer or Polk by that time. I encourage you to participate even more in Wikipedia than you have already. Respectfully, BusterD (talk) 23:48, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]