Omidsafi

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Omid Safi

Hello. Please remember to capitalise all names, not just the first one, unless there are good reasons otherwise. Incidentally, if you are indeed the Omid Safi referred to in the article, I suggest you add evidence of his notability - and fast - because otherwise it is likely to be regarded as a vanity page and may get deleted. Notability can be shown by adding verifiable, reliable references from unbiased sources. Loganberry (Talk) 12:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. It's generally a bad idea to write Wikipedia articles about yourself: have a read of Wikipedia:Autobiography for the details of why, but essentially it's because if you are notable enough for an encyclopedia article, you should be notable enough that those who don't know you personally can write it, using neutral, reliable and verifiable sources. Your students were somewhat misguided to ask you to write your own entry.

The current version of the Omid Safi article is much better, but could still do with some references other than your books: if you have been discussed in other published work (criticism, academic journals etc) then references from those would be ideal for this purpose. Oh, and finally, it's not recommended to put your email address on talk pages as it encourages spam: the best way to sign your talk posts is with four successive tildes, like so: ~~~~ as this automatically inserts your username and a timestamp. I hope all this has helped! Loganberry (Talk) 12:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)