DavidSchaal

March 2010

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. Clubmarx (talk) 07:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

David Schaal

Please allow David Schaal to remain as a disambiguation page for the two people with that name; it helps people navigate the website more easily. —Soap— 16:04, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

It's good that David D Schaal is okay with you using the David Schaal page as your own, but that doesn't mean that we are. He doesn't have direct control over any page on Wikipedia, even his own, just as you don't have control over your own page either. (And, I should add, neither do I; everything, including the naming of pages, is established by consensus.) If you would like to talk about this further, please do so either on this page here, or on Talk:David Schaal, rather than the visible article. —Soap— 16:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)