User talk:Funfunfun~enwiki
Vanity articles[edit]
Please don't create articles about yourself or your friends. We're building an encyclopedia here, and it's very unlikely that your article fits in with that. Creating such articles also makes work for others as we rush to delete them. The Wikipedia policy on vanity articles can be reviewed here and here and the reason your article was deleted can be reviewed here. If you need any more information about this, please visit this page. Thanks.➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 18:21, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Mick Napier[edit]
Thanks for your message. It is the duty of the writer of an article to both assert and prove the notability of the subject of the article in the article itself. Articles that do not are referred for deletion; articles that are newly created and don't assert and prove notability are speedy deleted. If we did not do this, within 24 hours we would gain over a thousand articles about mothers, teachers, neighbours, dogs, friends, meter readers, meter maids, street sweepers, shop assistants, improvisational comedians, floor polishers, painters and decorators, clerks, nurses, and window cleaners. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, there is no need for us to provide cost-free, advertising-free web hosting space paid for by generous donators in order to note the existence of individual people who, no matter how important they are on a microscale, have failed to make an impact on the wider world that would make them worth recording in an encyclopedia.
If you are looking for a service of this type, rather than trying an encyclopedia, perhaps MySpace would be a better option?
However, in this case I am happy to provide you with the text of your deleted article. It read, in full:
- Mick Napier is the Artistic Director of Annoyance Productions and the director of the Second City mainstage.
and was nominated for deletion on the basis that the article was CSD-A7 - an article about a non-notable person and CSD-A3 - an article with little or no context.
If you would like to contribute articles that are about notable subjects, that assert and prove the notability of the subject, and that consist of more than one sentence, here is Wikipedia's welcome message with some really helpful links that explain what Wikipedia is, what Wikipedia is not and what makes a good article.
Welcome, Funfunfun~enwiki!
Hello, Funfunfun~enwiki, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Redvers, one of the thousands of editors here at Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
The five pillars of Wikipedia
How to edit a page
Help pages
Tutorial
How to write a great article
Manual of Style
Fun stuff...
{{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed[edit]
Hello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Funfunfun. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Funfunfun~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
23:57, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed[edit]
This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
13:03, 22 April 2015 (UTC)