SteveAnderson23

Help me!

How do I get listed on Wikipedia?

Please help me with...getting listed on wikipedia

SteveAnderson23 SteveAnderson23 (talk) 06:43, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Most Wikipedia articles are written by editors with no connection to their subjects; since everything that appears in an article must be verifiable, we expect to see citations to reliable sources for every fact and, furthermore, the subject must meet a "notability" requirement. Notability is usually based on having in-depth, independent coverage appear in publications with a reputation for editorial control and fact checking.

Trying to write an article about yourself is strongly discouraged (see WP:AUTO for more discussion of this).

What we usually advise, when asked this question, is: focus on your chosen career and do interesting work that others will take notice of. When the notice gets as far as multiple independent publications, it's likely that someone will write an article about you. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 07:03, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:SteveAnderson23

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Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --SteveAnderson23 (talk) 06:59, 18 August 2019 (UTC)I need help getting listed on Wikipedia. I pasted part of my bio, but it's now being flagged and I don't know why? Can you help me instead of deleting me? please

Oh, that's even worse. I now see that what you originally posted would be considered a likely copyright violation since it is identical to content at https://www.portlandcreativelist.com/steve-anderson-design-illustration/. That website does not appear to identify licensing terms for its contents that are compatible with Wikipedia licensing, so an assumption of "all rights reserved" must be made. Even if you wrote that material yourself, it can't simply be copied to Wikipedia without a proper release.

But as I suggested above, trying to promote your business by "getting listed on Wikipedia" is contrary to the purposes of Wikipedia. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 07:13, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Your reduced, one-sentence user page is probably acceptable if you were to edit some other content on Wikipedia as a regular editor. But because the history contains a copyright violation, deletion is the cleanest way to deal with it. Otherwise, it will require some extra attention from an admin to delete the copied material from the history (we call it a "revdel"). — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 07:26, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

User talk pages are the usual way to communicate between editors. I saw your emails, but will reply here.

An admin has deleted your original user page and that resolves the copyright problem. Your current userpage is not likely to be a problem in terms of being too promotional or copied from a copyrighted source, but it falls a bit outside our guidelines because it looks like you are trying to write a biographical article about yourself rather than what the user page is intended for: some brief comments about yourself, your interests, and your Wikipedia editing.

By "regular editor" I meant, yes, that if you were editing Wikipedia pages other than trying to write about yourself, you'd be allowed more leeway about what you put on your userpage.

Since writing about yourself here is problematic, can I suggest a website like Everipedia where you are allowed to write about yourself? The site uses pretty much the same Wiki software as is used here. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 09:05, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

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