User talk:Drthere

Welcome!

Hello, Drthere, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 22:20, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

What page?

You asked about the deletion of "my page", but you have never created a page from this account: what was the title of the page you are asking about? If you do not know the exact title, it would also help to know the username of the account that created it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:20, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Tom Dyson page

I'm sorry to have been slow about giving the further advice I promised. As explained in the other note I linked you to, the page was deleted because it was created by one of a group of clandestine paid editors who have for some time been spamming Wikipedia from hundreds of throwaway accounts, and have now been formally banned.

If you want to create a page, I must first warn you that Wikipedia is not a place like LinkedIn or Myspace for people to "tell the world" about themselves. Autobiography is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at WP:Autobiography. Another difference from sites like LinkedIn is that nobody, not its first author and least of all its subject, owns a Wikipedia article; anyone can edit it and (while there is protection against vandalism and unfounded allegations) you would not be able to control the page or insist on your preferred version. Many people have encountered Wikipedia's Law of Unintended Consequences.

Having said all that, if you want to go ahead, read:

• Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:Notability (people)
• Wikipedia:Notability (summary)

Then click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title; that will create a draft page where you can work on the article, with a link to submit it, when ready, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will look at it and either accept it or give you feedback. Take care to write from a neutral point of view and not to try to "sell" yourself; avoid marketing-speak and "peacock terms". Describe what you have achieved, not your hopes and aims.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:53, 9 September 2013 (UTC)