User talk:Sirkevinalot

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Welcome!

Hello, Sirkevinalot, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ~~~~; this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! AUTiger » talk 04:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Edits about yourself

I've noted you've added your own name to several articles. Please review Wikipedia's guidelines on notability and autobiography before you continue to do so. Regards, AUTiger » talk 04:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kevin M. Moss

A tag has been placed on Kevin M. Moss requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. AUTiger » talk 04:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Kevin, sorry, but I read the article and your arguments on the talk page, and decided that the article did not at this time meet Wikipedia's notability requirements. However, I am impressed by your achievements, and the deletion doesn't mean that the article couldn't be improved to meet the notability requirements for people, especially if you add more references from reliable sources. I encourage you to work on the article in your own userspace (i.e. any page beginning with User:Sirkevinalot/) until it is ready to be moved to the article space again (its original name). However, please read WP:COI if you are the subject. Also, I strongly urge you to pick one account and edit exclusively from it (see WP:SOCK for the rules on this). Leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions or want to discuss anything. delldot talk 08:10, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kevin

Hey again, thanks for your note! Nice work on the SPSU article. I looked at Southern Polytechnic State University: better? It was a misplaced <ref> tag messing the thing up. If the reference is not closed by a </ref> tag, the software treats the everything after the first tag as reference, until it finds a </ref> tag. Since there wasn't a </ref> till the end of the article, it treated the whole article as reference. Since even the references section was before the </ref>, the whole rest of the article disappeared! Tricky things, those ref tags. We don't have the perfect citation system yet, as you can see. You can read more at Wikipedia:cite.php. But let me know if you need help with that or anything else.

I should once again make clear my feelings on people writing articles about themselves: I think it's a Bad Idea. Consider: once it's out there, anyone can edit it, and any relevant material that's been published is fair game. So if you go through a messy divorce, or get accused of drunk driving... all that can go in there. And the people who edit the article don't necessarily have to like you. You'll have no right to choose what gets included or excluded, as long as the material meets Wikipedia's standards. And that's not even including vandals, who could write any crazy thing in there (though it would very likely be quickly reverted, still someone could see it before it is). If it were me, I'd be scrambling to prove I'm NOT notable, to get that thing deleted forthwith! Read this person's account. At any rate, I do really recommend that you read WP:AUTO if you haven't already. But yeah, the userspace is the way to go if all this doesn't deter you. Keep in touch! Peace, delldot talk 22:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Kevin! Keep in touch :) delldot talk 06:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Invitation

I'd like to invite you to join the new task forces proposed in the Georgia WikiProject. We are currently looking for new members to join our proposed task forces and work groups. With your help we can make it one of the best WikiProjects. Remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards Absolon S. Kent (talk) 20:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)