User talk:1blissing

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[edit] Hi there

Just a note to follow up on your help desk request. For legal reasons, accounts may not be shared between multiple people. This has to do with the way our GFDL licensing works. You're free to create different accounts for each editor, but those accounts shouldn't be shared or swapped in any way. Also, please remember to follow our policies on conflict of interest and neutrality. Feel free to ask me on my talk page if you have any questions, or just write {{helpme}} somewhere on your page, and someone will come along. Best, --Bfigura ^(talk) 23:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. Generally, it's highly frowned upon to write articles about people or organizations that you happen to have ties to. (Whether those ties are familial professional). This is because it's likely that there would be a conflict of interest that could lead to lack of neutrality. (Which is a requirement for any article on Wikipedia).

Also, articles need to establish the notability of their subject. The acid test for notability is whether or not there are multiple 3rd party independent reliable sources that discuss the subject in a non-trivial way. (This is because all information in wikipedia must be verifiable). Articles that don't meet these guidelines tend to be speedily deleted. (For more information on how to establish the notability of a person, see this guideline).

Lastly, I noticed that you refer to yourself as we. For legal reasons relating to our licensing, accounts on Wikipedia may not be shared, or represent the input of multiple people. (Such accounts are termed 'role accounts', and really aren't generally permitted). If you have more questions, feel free to ask the help desk, or just place {{helpme}} on your talk page, and someone will stop by. Best, --Bfigura ^(talk) 00:04, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi again

Hi there Stefan. I think the original article has been deleted (otherwise it should appear somewhere in your Contributions). However, I'm not an admin, so I can't figure out what happened to it without knowing the name of the original article. (Was this the one related to Blissing?). I'd be happy to track one down for you though. (You can do that yourself too, using the list of admins).

But before recreating the article, you probably would need to consider three things. One is, you probably would need more sources to make the article deletion-proof. (Ideally, you'd want a magazine, newspaper, or famous ezine (not blog) article about Blissing). The link you mentioned only references it in passing, which probably won't stand up to the notability criteria for organizations. I'm not sure if you have access to something like Lexis-Nexis, but that might be a good place to start.

The second is you also want to be careful about conflict of interest. (The business' faq gives some good advice on how to write on a subject where you might have a conflict of interest). We tend to heavily discourage people from writing about themselves, or organizations that they run, just because it's really hard to write neutrally about a subject you're close to.

The third is your username. Right now, it matches a company, and might be considered a role account, which is any account that's linked to a position, rather than a person. (For legal reasons (based on the way the GFDL liscense handles contributions), each person needs their own account). From your response it sounds like you're the only person on your account, which is good, but your name could give some people the wrong impression. (Of a role account here only to promote a company, either of which would be bad). If you want to change it, you can head over to here.

Anyway, hope that's not too much info. I'd encourage you to look around for some more sources, and in the meantime, maybe contribute to some of the articles in the entertainment arena maybe? (Oh, and we're all volunteers, so there's no ranking / rewards mechanism other than building up good will.) :) Hope all that helps, and good luck. --Bfigura ^(talk) 03:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)