User talk:Peter Singer

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Peter Singer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Autobiography

Some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Sir Peter Singer may not be sufficiently well-known to merit articles of their own. The Wikipedia community welcomes newcomers, and encourages them to become Wikipedians. On Wikipedia, all users are entitled to a user page in which they can describe themselves, and this article's content may be incorporated into that page. However, to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia proper, a subject must be notable. We encourage you to write or improve articles on notable subjects.

From Wikipedia:Autobiography:

“ Creating or editing an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.)

Note that anything you submit can be edited by others. Several autobiographical articles have been a source of dismay to their original authors after a period of editing by the community, and in at least four instances have been listed for deletion by their original authors. In some cases the article is kept even if the original author requests otherwise. People are generally unable to determine whether they are themselves encyclopedic.

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Thanks/wangi 12:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your username

Hello. It seems your Wikipedia user name resembles that of Peter Singer, the High Court judge. To prevent unfortunate cases where pranksters pretend to be someone well known, our user name policy (at Wikipedia:Username) requires that such accounts be blocked (the part where it says "Names of well-known living or recently deceased people"). We do, however, realise that some (regrettably only a very few) of such cases are infact the real person named; to that end, can I ask you to email info-en-q@wikimedia.org (mentioning this discussion at "User talk:Peter Singer") from your official email address and confirm that you really are Sir Singer, or that you're editing on his behalf. The people who handle that email list will then be able to unblock this account. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I hope you'll understand why we need to be careful in this regard. I have also blocked User:PeterSinger. Thanks/wangi 12:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

It would be useful to have some indication from User:Peter singer as to whether this person is the judge. The edit history makes it seem unlikely to me: links added by this user to Sir Peter Singer (see diff) and to Joyanne Bracewell (see diff) both come from a Fathers 4 Justice perspective. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:05, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, there are some real WP:BLP concerns here. Thanks/wangi 13:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)