Lewpuls

After wading through the sometimes extraordinarily Byzantine administrative instructions of Wikipedia for several days, I have submitted the article under its proper name and added it to the Biography project. Lewpuls (talk) 19:16, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

For two years or more, to the best of my recollection, there has been a request for an article about Lewis Pulsipher at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Culture_and_fine_arts).

There are more than ten references within existing articles to me or my work, as well. Googling both forms of my name (Lew and Lewis) yields more than 78,000 hits, most of them about me thanks to the rarity of my name. Recently I decided to write an article myself, having found the following guideline on Wiki:

"The proper way to get your own writing about yourself in if you really think you can meet the inclusion criteria and are willing to accept having a neutral, non-promotional article is to make a proposal containing the text you want, instead of just putting it up directly, and seek the consensus of the community through discussion. Not only does this provide independent viewpoints on it that can allow you to discover biases you were not aware of having, it also helps provide an indication of good faith and that you are willing to put the interests of Wikipedia first instead of standing in a position of conflict of interest."

I hereby request that you consider the article I have constructed at user:lewpuls.

I have a photograph, taken by someone at a talk I gave at a game convention and posted online at Boardgamegeek, but I am not certain of the legalities (BGG operates on a form of creative commons license, I think) and in any case I do not have rights to upload the photo to Wikipedia.

Lewis Pulsipher

Lewpuls (talk) 18:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC) lewpuls

Autobiographies

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself. 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. 69.181.249.92 (talk) 19:13, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Lewis Pulsipher

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Welcome to Wikipedia

Hi Lew. :) I'm going to add the article about you to a few different wikiprojects (RPG, D&D, board games). Love your elemental princes of evil, by the way - I even did a third edition D&D update of them that got printed in Dragon. :) BOZ (talk) 19:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

By the way, I believe I was the one who added a request for an article about you. I sort of "manage" the D&D Wikiproject (by virtue of no one else really wanting the job). Hopefully we can get this all sorted out fairly well. BOZ (talk) 19:51, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, BOZ. Since there's a Wikipedia provision for writing such things oneself, I felt it was more proper to write it myself than ask someone else to do so, and to post it myself. But then I felt like I'd been arrested!Lewpuls (talk) 20:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a copy of the third edition archomentals that I can have? I played Third for a while but did not subscribe to Dragon. Lewpuls (talk) 19:59, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I think that autobiographies are not specifically prohibited, but they are strongly discouraged. Obviously, there are some people who are very much against anyone writing an article about onesself or anyone that you personally know well (and I can agree that there are a great many good reasons why), and I do agree that it is easiest to remain "neutral" about a subject that you are not closely associated with, but if you believe that you have written about yourself as neutrally as possible then I can't say you did anything wrong (although my opinion may be in the minority.) :)

Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the third edition article that I could send you (it would take some doing to even get the article scanned into a PDF or something), but I don't doubt that if you were to ask someone from Paizo that they would be glad to hook you up with a copy. I'll also note that the princes got an update in second edition AD&D, and just within the last few months Imix and Ogremoch were introduced into the new fourth edition (Monster Manual 3). BOZ (talk) 20:07, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I learned a long time ago that ad hominem is a logical fallacy, yet the folks who are "very much against" are employing an ad hominem argument. And the silliness is, anyone can get someone else to submit an piece so that it isn't obviously autobiographical, I just didn't see a need to do that. Didn't know "the boys" had gone into fourth edition, thanks. I don't follow it, may be a nice game, and in some ways harkens back to first edition because you cannot "go it alone" the way you can in third, but it isn't D&D any more. Lewpuls (talk) 20:31, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

G'day and welcome - I recall your stuff from 1st edition. Great you have a bio here now - the issue is navigating all the stuff about Conflict of Interest etc. The kicker is always finding independent sources to justify notability - any books on history of D&D or RPGs where you get discussed would be insanely helpful :) (PS: I noticed the princes of Elemental Evil made it into MM3 in 4th Ed :)) Taught my kids 4th ed...yeah a different game. Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:45, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Yeah Lew, I asked a few good editors that I trust, like Cas here (and Jclemens, Bilby, DGG, and others), to come in and lend a hand - looks quite a bit better already. But, like every other article on Wikipedia, it is a work in progress. :) BOZ (talk) 02:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)