User talk:Sandom

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

Hello Sandom! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  17:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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Re: Bloap, it was deleted because the term is currently non-notable. For more about what qualifies as notable on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Notability. Thanks. --Fang Aili talk 16:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

You said: Under your definition of "Notable", the terms Internet or Blog would not have been permitted within Wikipedia until they became mainstream. That's exactly right. The thing to keep in mind here is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and therefore all content must be notable (according to the guidelines linked above). "Blog" wasn't notable until it became mainstream. I encourage you to resubmit Bloap once it reaches that level of use, or if you can cite sources showing the term is in widespread use. If we created articles about every term that someone made up, Wikipedia would be a bunch of nonsense articles. I'm not saying that Bloap is nonsense, but that there must be standards. --Fang Aili talk 17:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] J._G._Sandom

I've noticed that your username is Sandom and that you are editing an article about yourself. That poses a huge problem as the Wikipedia:Autobiography guidelines strongly urge you not to write about yourself in Wikipedia as it poses significant conflict of interest and neutral point of view problems. Please be VERY careful about our neutral point of view and vanity policies as linked at the top of this page as breaching them will result in your autobiography being nominated for deletion. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  17:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Sources

After viewing a "Requires Citation" note on the entry for my name (following an entry disagreement with Fang!), I tried to insert the proper citations but was unable to operate the footnote function properly. Can you help? I can send you the edited page with the citations if you'd like.Sandom 17:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)J.G. Sandom

Follow the steps at Wikipedia:Cite_sources. I've done so for you already. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  18:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing Article

Netsnipe:

I didn't write this article. But once it was posted, I thought I would update it. And since I saw a note to add citations, I thought I'd try and help out. Was this wrong?

J. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sandom (talk • contribs) .

Not inherently. But some editors (as I did) would have automatically assumed that 68.38.12.54 (the anonymous person who started the article) and User:Sandom were one and the same. Anoymous accounts don't have much credibility around here. But since you've provided third-party sources to establish your notability, then the article is fine to stay. Just don't be tempted into turning the article into your own soapbox to promote yourself and you'll hopefully stay on the right side of WP:AUTO and WP:VAIN. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  18:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] J._G._Sandom

Do not remove csd template without giving a reason. STTW (talk) 21:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

To SlaveToTheWage: I was alerted to changes to this page and opted to cut sections that I thought were promotional in nature. For example, references to favorable book reviews -- though accurate and documentable -- have been removed. The remaining sections seem to meet current standards. Activity on this page seems to be increasing. User:Sandom

[edit] March 2008

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from pages that you have created yourself, as you did with J. G. Sandom. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. STTW (talk) 21:28, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

To SlaveToTheWage: Please avoid threatening those who are trying to correct errors on entries. Also, please note the communication with NetSnipe which reveals that I did not create this page. Therefore, I was observing the protocol in the alert box. Frankly, I'd rather not spend any time editing the faulty information on this page. But when faulty entries are brought to my attention, it seems counter to the spirit of wikipedia to simply ignore them. Crowdsourcing the editing function is at the heart of your mission. I am one of that crowd, and more than passingly familiar with the subject. User:Sandom

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article J. G. Sandom, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. seresin | wasn't he just...? 00:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

To Seresin: This makes eminent sense. I will exercise great caution should I bother to edit this article for accuracy again. Thanks for the advice. User:Sandom