User talk:Paxuscalta

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[edit] Autobiographical information

I see that you've extensively edited the Paxus Calta article and that you appear to be the subject of the article. I wanted to be sure that you are familiar with our guideline about autobiographical editing (which lives at Wikipedia:Autobiography) and if you're not familiar with it, to advise that becoming so will help you avoid the pitfalls involved. Overall, it looks like you edits have been remarkably restrained and of relatively neutral tone, so my concerns are very borderline in that regard.

A slightly less borderline concern is that most of the sources you cite are from what appear to be your own website, or websites of your commune. The use of "personal" websites is a comlicated issue that is further complicated by the autobiographical nature of the edits. Normally, personal websites are disallowed by the Verifiability policy. An exception is made, however, for using personal websites in biographical articles when the website belongs to the subject of the article (much like articles can use personal quotes of people for their biography for uncontested issues). This is in turn complicated because you have made the edits yourself: it's not disallowed, but it skirts the spirit of the Autobiography guideline and the Verifiability policy when taken together.

Again, these are issues that are not necessarily problems, but are issues that you should be aware of when editing the article about yourself. It appears that you have edited scrupulously so far, and being aware of these explicit policies and guidelines should help you to refine that.

[edit] External links

An unrelated issue is that of external links. I notice that you've added links to many of your fingerbooks to articles on relevant subjects. This, again, is not explicitly prohibited, but it is very strongly discouraged due to the clear conflict of interest inherent. (See Wikipedia:External links, "Links normally to be avoided" subsection, point #3.) I realise as an activist you probably have strong feelings about the dissemination of this kind of information (and I rather like your fingerbook on polyamory), but it is frowned on by the community to use Wikipedia for any kind of promotion. Fortunately, there is a simple alternative that evades such problems entirely: present the link to other editors on the discussion page of the article and suggest that it would be an asset to the article. In encouraging independent editors to appraise the value of the link and allowing those independent editors to make the decision for or against its inclusion in the article, you entirely avoid any possible conflict of interest while still getting the link into the articles where it is agreed by everyone that it is appropriate.

Welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope my advice has been received in the spirit it is intended: appreciation for your contributions so far and a desire to see a promising editor become a great one. Thanks. — Saxifrage ✎ 17:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Paxus Calta Entry

Thank you for your message. The previous editor did not delete the article. He or she simply added a recommendation to an administrator that the page be speedily deleted (that is, deleted without a prolonged period for discussion). In other words, he or she added a "speedy tag" which stated "it is an article about a person, group of people, band or club that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject.". I removed that recommendation because I thought the article should be kept. Pages where such a recommendation has been added are listed at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion until they are either deleted or the recommendation for deletion is removed. I sometimes review that list and remove the recommendation from articles that I feel are either acceptable or can be improved to the point where they will be acceptable, which is how I noticed that your article had received a speedy tag. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 05:04, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re Network For New Culture

A check on this group tells me that it clearly doesn't meet WP:NOTABILITY guidelines, so I've tagged it for deletion. You can remove the tag if you want, but it that case it will just go to WP:AFD, in which case it will most likely be deleted anyway. That is, unless you can show that the group meets our notability guidelines. Herostratus 21:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

After the addition of several articles on NFNC it seems that the proposal to delete this article has been removed and you can find it now under Network For A New Culture Paxuscalta 13:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Paxus Calta Entry

Based on suggestions listed above, i have reformated the article and moved many of the external links to the section at the bottom and have authored several wikipedia entries to create internal links for others. There are fewer than one external links in each paragraph on average, i dont know if this is still too high for the wikipedia style standards, but until i hear from someone (presumably in this space) that it is, i will assume this is good enuf for now. Paxuscalta 13:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] renaming articles

To rename an article, click the "move" tab at the top - move=rename. In most cases you can only do this if there isn't already an article at the new name; if there is, ask me or any admin to make the move. Herostratus 13:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please explain

Hi back!...but i have no idea why you wrote:

You perhaps know this already, but you dont need to post incomplete articles in the main wikipedia space and would do well to post them off your own user page [User:alyosha/Transtopianism for example] you could then do a full mock up and even ask others in the wikipedia community to look at it (tho i dont actually know how this is done other than going to your discussion page).

To my knowledge i have posted no such articles; please direct me to wherever it looks like i have! I'm curious why you used t'topianism as a suggestion: i got that one *deleted*. And tho i don't know what you're talking about, i'll add that it's often good WP practice to create a stub for an article you can't complete on your own.

The other input is appreciated, but i'm satisfied for the forseeable with all those issues. Actually (and it makes me smile and shake my head at the changes the years have wrought, that in any of this i might have a computer-related suggestion for you), i have no problem browsing my name: the "s are part of it and that's clear to the WP-experienced. And user names matching "real" names are not the norm; and in any case my realest name was taken. Also, WP converts the "s to wikicode, even from external searches; so even tho the page is really User:%22alyosha%22, just now my userpage was the 1st return from google for ``"alyosha" wikipedia``, and for ``alyosha user wikipedia``. I'm not sure i understand you, but i hope this helps.

And oc you're welcome for the edit. :^) Oh, and thx for the update -- please keep me on the list, even tho i have to plead insufficient time to resp, to that and many other things. But all the best on your (plural) decisions. (Hmm; multi-entendre.) A bit revised when less tired: "alyosha" (talk) 19:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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