User talk:William M. Connolley/Compliments and endorsements

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This is not a user page, User:William M. Connolley is the user page. This is a page showing nothing encyclopedic and serves no purpose whatsoever on Wikipedia. Have a link to your own web page showing how much others give you compliments and endorsements, but it does not belong in an encyclopedia. If this is strictly a user page it might be fine, but since user page User:William M. Connolley already exists, what is the purpose of using space on Wikipedia for another page just to show that some people agree with him? How many user pages can one have? Can anyone make a Wikipedia page just to promote themselves just by creating a new user and calling it a 'userpage'? Is this not taking advantage? Is this what Wikipedia is about? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.103.134.239 (talkcontribs).

Please read Wikipedia:User page. This user subpage is not in encyclopedia proper. jni 11:35, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, reading Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not under self promotion seems to qualify this as a delete.

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—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:--65.103.134.239 11:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)|--65.103.134.239 11:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)]] ([[User talk:--65.103.134.239 11:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/--65.103.134.239 11:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)|contribs]]).