User talk:Wikissandro

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Hello, Wikissandro, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited appears to be an article about yourself. Writing about yourself is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians.

As this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. We require individuals to meet Wikipedia's definition of a notable person to accept articles about them. A page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Alessandro Testa

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Alessandro Testa, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Self promotion

Hi. We don't get to write about ourselves on Wikipedia. I've reverted your changes to Carnival; please do not continue in this fashion. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 20:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for taking the time to review my changes.

I understand the logic, of course. However, please consider that I am a recognised scholar in my field. When it comes to this specific entry, I am one of the most prominent scholars about Carnival. Basically, the only comprehensive academic history of Carnival in English as been published by myself (I refer to my 2020 book for Routledge). If I am not qualified to write about Carnival, then nobody is. I have noticed that in this as well as in other instances on Wikipedia, there could be more use of my scholarsip - and we are taking about academically recognised works for reputed publishers, which is very often not the case with what gets cited and referenced in the entries I am talking about. Again, I find it a little paradoxical to mercelessly delete my informed additions (besides, I always cite other authors and theorists, too) and keep the uninformed ones instead. Wikissandro (talk) 20:57, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"I am a recognised scholar in my field" is not a reason that you get to break the "don't write about yourself" rule. The point is that if you are notable and important enough to be mentioned on Wikipedia and/or have an article about you, you still shouldn't be the one writing about yourself; you should let someone else do it.

Please review the Wikipedia conflict of interest guideline before making further edits. AntiDionysius (talk) 21:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reaction.

The point is that I don't even care about my personal page. But my works can help improve the topics and entries I am an expert of. I have noticed a number of factual errors, misleading info, and incomplete sections in at least a dozen entries, and I would like to improve/fix that. Of course, since I can only edit / create entries I am competenent about, that means that I will have to use the available scholarship, and of course the scholarship I know better is my own. As I wrote before, it was my intention to set out to improve, for a start, the entry about Carnival, which I find very long but theoretically poor. Now, I am maybe the only scholar to have written extensively about theories of Carnival specifically. If you don't let me use this wisdom on the section of this entry about precisely theories of Carnival, then I find this reviewing system rather curious. And the entry will remain theoretically poor, of course, since I am one of the very few competent enough to write about that. But well, as you wish. Wikissandro (talk) 21:11, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Alessandro Testa (August 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Spiderone was:

The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:55, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Wikissandro! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:55, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]