User talk:Heatheruk
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Survey[edit]
Hi Heather!
I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!
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Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!
Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 22:58, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
WikiWomen's Collaborative[edit]
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Hello, Heatheruk
Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Joseywales1961, and I thank you for your contributions.
I wanted to let you know, however, that I’ve proposed an article that you started, SirenHellVixen, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. To prevent the deletion, please add a reference to the article. You may remove the deletion tag yourself once the article has at least one reliable source.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Joseywales1961}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . Thanks!
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JW 1961 Talk 15:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of SirenHellVixen[edit]
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A tag has been placed on SirenHellVixen requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
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December 2021[edit]
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at SirenHellVixen. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. noq (talk) 18:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
You're not going to want to hear this, but Wikipedia isn't really suitable for what you have in mind:
- Wikipedia doesn't allow articles on every subject. We have various standards/thresholds that a subject has to meet before we can have an article on it. For people the relevant standard is here. This is usually down to what quality references are available and what they say about the subject. Your article cited references but they were all to the subject's (your) own website and social media profiles. We generally expect articles to be based on independent sources with a reputation for fact checking/accuracy (WP:V). Coverage in reputable newspapers or magazines, for example, would be better to base your article on.
- Wikipedia really doesn't like people writing about themselves, as someone else told you above. Wikipedia is supposed to be a neutral encyclopedia, and few people can write about themselves in a neutral, objective fashion. Autobiographies also often contain information which can't be verified in reliable published sources, which is something Wikipedia tries to do with all articles.
- Wikipedia also isn't a webhost. It isn't a good place to host information about yourself in the same way as your website would be. Content posted to Wikipedia can be (and usually is) edited by other people. If you write something about yourself then it may well be removed, changed to say something you didn't write, or replaced with something else entirely - possibly something you don't like or don't agree with. Wikipedia pages aren't owned or controlled by any single person.
I deleted this particular article because it didn't indicate that the subject was important or significant. You seem to think the page was deleted because it did claim you were important, but it's the other way round. If a page about a person doesn't claim they are significant then it can be speedily deleted because it's unlikely to meet the notability standards for people I linked to above. I can see that someone else (who isn't an administrator) tagged the page for deletion for lacking references, but that doesn't prevent it from being speedily deleted. And as I mentioned above the subject's own website is generally a poor source for an article. Anybody can write whatever they want on their own website.
I think you would be much better off posting this content to another platform - your website, social media profile, etc, and give people a link to that instead of Wikipedia. I appreciate from your comment that it took a lot of effort to write this article, and if you enable email on your account then I can email you a copy of the deleted page so you can use it somewhere else. Hut 8.5 19:03, 3 December 2021 (UTC)