User talk:65.12.169.113
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[edit] Russell Longcore article
Again, please undersand that deletion of your article was not a personal whim on my part or Victoriagirl's. We interpret and enforce policies that reflect a consensus of the editors of Wikipedia. The important policy involved here is that Wikipedia only includes articles regarding notable persons and books, that is, where there is significant third-party published coverage and discussion of you or your work in major, reliable, intellectually-independent publications. This is not a comment on the quality of your work. It's not the case that you "don't have a say in the matter" -- as you have posted several times on the matter -- but your personal opinion of the suitability the article is not the deciding one. The fact that you wrote the article is less important that its contents. An article written by your publisher is very likely to be deleted as quickly as the first one, based on the notability issue and the fact that your publisher, like yourself, has a signficant conflict of interest in the matter as well. --MCB (talk) 01:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- Concerning your most recent post on my talk page, I write, with respect, that the statements like "you editors can do whatever you choose to do" and "you won't allow me to revise the original article" are not only incorrect, but indicate a misunderstanding of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. I encourage you to investigate further. Again, I recommend you read the conflict of interest guidelines; policies concerning ownership of articles and the assumption of good faith may also be of use. Victoriagirl (talk) 13:36, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
To answer your recent questions, the second one first: the John Grisham article, like those about other notable authors on Wikipedia, was written and edited by a large number of Wikipedia editors; the original version was written by disinterested third person - perhaps a fan - who was not the author, his agent, his publicist, his manager, a family member, or his publisher. Again, Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines explain why it is a bad idea for you or those connected with you to write about you or your work.
To your first question, "who can [write an article about you]?" the answer is, nobody (yet). Remember, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a directory of authors or business people, or some sort of "Who's Who". To be very frank, the authors of self-published, privately-published, or "print on demand" books are rarely if ever the subjects of articles. Also, it is a policy that all information in articles be verifiable in third party, reliable sources that are independent of the subject. That means significant coverage in the mainstream mass media. Articles are based on established sources, not press releases, publicity material, etc. --MCB (talk) 21:49, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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