User talk:Michaelsherlockpub

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelsherlockpub

A tag has been placed on User:Michaelsherlockpub requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself

Welcome to Wikipedia, but it is not a place like LinkedIn or Facebook for people to write about themselves. It is a quite different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles, and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography.

Wikipedia user pages are not like those at social-networking sites. Their use is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST:

"Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account."

The links in the Welcome message at the top of this page will tell you more about Wikipedia. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:59, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your question

You asked whether it is OK to make a "simple biography" of your client/employer. If you want to try,

Read WP:PSCOI again. You should not directly post an article about him, but you may make a draft. To do that, click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will make a draft page for you, with a link to useful advice and a "Submit" button to send it, when it is ready, for review by an experienced user who will either accept it or give you feedback.

Before you start, read WP:Your first article, WP:Notability and WP:AUTHOR. You need independent references such as reviews, not publisher's blurbs, to establish notability. You may find User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard helpful, too.

Take great care not to try to "sell" Mr Sherlock - the sure way to rejection. Everybody thinks that Wikipedia is a free advertising platform, and as a result we are extremely resistant to anything that looks like promotion. One reason why COI editing is so strongly discouraged is that people close to a subject, with the best intentions, tend to write marketing-speak and puffery. Make a strong effort to think of yourself not as writing for Mr Sherlock, but writing for Wikipedia about him. No glowing adjectives, no opinions, just facts, neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources.

If in doubt, keep it short and simple. I would advise against detailed synopses of all his books. The article should be about him, not a platform for his views.

You should realise, incidentally, an important difference from "notice-board" sites like Facebook: nobody "owns" a Wikipedia article, not its first author and least of all its subject. Others can and will edit it. If Mr Sherlock wants an article about himself which he can control, this is not the site to come to.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:02, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User name

Replying to your question on my talk page, with apologies for delay: yes, I think, on balance, it would be as well to change your username. For one thing, it will avoid people thinking, as I did, that you are Mr Sherlock; for another, the important thing about Wikipedia accounts is that each should be just one person, and a username which says, in effect, "Michael Sherlock's publicist" might be one person today and a different one next month.

Your username may be related to your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it should not be the name of any group or organization, or of any other living person. You can either simply abandon this account and start a new one or, in order to keep the connection with your contributions, you can apply at WP:Changing username. Read to the bottom of that page, click on "Simple" and follow the instructions.

Of course, in any editing to do with Mr Sherlock you will still need to declare your asociation with him, perhaps by a note on your account's user page.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:27, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]