User talk:Valgorth

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The article you created at Valgorth is not suitable for a Wikipedia article, which must have a notable subject and be verifiable, but it may be a good start for your own userpage. I have moved it to User:Valgorth, which is where you are encouraged to write about yourself. You are free to move it back into the (Main) namespace but bear in mind that if you do so, it is likely to be nominated for deletion.

The purpose of a user page is to enable active editors of Wikipedia to introduce themselves to other editors. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so you should not consider your user page to be a personal homepage. Content unrelated to Wikipedia or its editing may be removed.

Please see the user page guidelines, especially this section for more information. Fan-1967 18:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Valgorth

Hi. In order to create a bio, first you have to check if you are notable. And i mean Notable with an uppercase N. See Wikipedia:Notability (people) for some guidelines. Since according to our initial assessment you were not notable, we moved the page to your user space User:Valgorth, and deleted the article. As for copyrights and copycats: You already have the username you want. As for the article: If there should ever be two or more notable Valgorth's, we would have to create a list at Valgorth, that links to e.g. Valgorth (entertainer) etc. Don't worry about that. Does this help? -- Chris 73 | Talk 19:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you are in doubt that you are notable enough for wikipedia, the you are probably not. On a side note, it is considered bad form to create an article about yourself, or have it created through your assistant. That is self promotion. Our problem is, we get lots of garage bands, minor artists, etc, who want to create a page describing themselves as the best thing since sliced bread. (Have a look at Special:New pages if you don't believe me). Of course, many of them do produce credible and good work, that I could buy right away at amazon. But we do not want to have an article on everybody that ever wrote a book, released a CD, sold a painting or published a journal article.

If someone else creates an article about you, you would not be consulted. At the current stage, it probably would also be deleted as non-notable. My suggestion is to google yourself occasionally to see what is written about you on wikipedia and elsewhere. Recently, there was quite a fuss where one article falsely linked a journalist to the Kennedy assasination, and another one was declare dead. While we try to keep vandals at bay, stuff like this happens.

As for copyrights: If you find a picture or artwork of yourself on Wikipedia that you did not give permission to have published here, let us know at e.g. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard and it will be removed. As for copycats: I did not quite understand your concern in relation to Wikipedia.

Finally, not having an Article here does not mean that you are not a valuable person. It just means that you are not yet famous or notable enough.

I hope this helps -- Chris 73 | Talk 19:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problems. Best wishes and good luck. -- Chris 73 | Talk 20:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]