User talk:Stars of Sydney

Welcome!

Hello, Stars of Sydney, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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 need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Edhubbard 20:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Additions on the List of people with synesthesia page

Thank you for your addition to the List of people with synesthesia page. Based on what you have added there, it seems clear that Eric Willems is a synesthete. However, wikipedia requires that material be sourced in objectively verifiable publications. Normally, this amounts to requiring that any information included in wikipedia be published in some sort of reliable source, like a newspaper, book, or peer-reviewed journal article (see here for more about what are considered reliable sources). Although my personal opinion is that Eric's reports amount to synesthesia (see my user page for why my opinion on this matters), this is still insufficient for wikipedia inclusion. I am going to move the material that you added to "Proposed and under consideration" pending some sort of independent verification. Please understand that this is not a reflection of any personal opinion on my part, but rather my attempts to follow the wikipedia procedures on pages that I work on. If Eric would like to talk with other people that share his synesthetic experiences, he may want to contact Sean Day, a professor of English at Trident Technical College, a synesthete himself (multiple forms), and the moderator of an e-mail based "synesthesia list" where people from all over the planet discuss their experiences. Please feel free to respond on my talk page if I can help you with anything. Edhubbard 20:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ps: You may run into trouble with some wikipedia editors wanting to delete the Eric Willems entry, since you have not in any way established WP:Notability. You may want to add, for example, the GarageBand.com entry I found here [1] any other websites that mention him and the Stars of Sydney, or any media appearances that can be cited. Otherwise people might tag it as being unencyclopedic, and perhaps advertising. I see that you are new here, and that you have just started making edits, so please understand that I am just trying to explain how things are done around here in time for you to make changes so that your additions have a better chance of being kept. Edhubbard 20:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]