Sameirk

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Hello, Sameirk and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dougweller (talk) 06:13, 19 August 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Adding people's names to articles

You've added a number of entries to Rabindra Sangeet‎ which I've removed (leaving the references). That's because they didn't have articles. See WP:NLIST - as a rule of thumb, there should be an article establishing their notability first. Otherwise not only do such lists become unmanageable but also get used for promotional/advertising purposes. Dougweller (talk) 06:17, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi - thanks for the email. If you'd just clicked on 'edit' on the right of the section heading you could have replied here, or if you'd clicked on 'talk' beside my name, you'd get to the talk page, then at the top click on new section.

You've mentioned one of many pages which is a mess with people adding themselves, their friends, someone they just heard of, etc. Feel free to do what I did. We want to avoid Wikipedia being a source of anyone's fame (or of new ideas, etc, we are an encyclopedia after all). I apologise if I removed the name of anyone who already has an article. It gets worse when it's a religious article, caste, clan, or whatever, as we have a strict policy on biographies of living persons which you might be interested in, see WP:BLP. Have a great time editing. Dougweller (talk) 18:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)