Artmaestro

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Hello, Artmaestro. You have new messages at Pianotech's talk page.
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Hello! I replied to your message on my talk page. Pianotech 01:57, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi -- I put a link in my revert to wikipedia's policies on conflict of interest. Basically, in the list of fictional dogs, it's not proper to list a dog in a book you yourself published and are selling from your own website. The fictional dog would have to be at least notable enough (see wikipedia's policies on notability) -- that is to say well known enough -- that someone else would have thought of adding it to the list. It may be that other people are putting their own works on the list, but they shouldn't be. I haven't noticed others doing that, but if they are they should be removed too. Anyhow, read the section on conflict of interest, particularly this part: Wikipedia:Self-promotion#Self-promotion Nightspore (talk) 04:53, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nicole van Dam

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Fails WP:GNG, WP:BASIC, WP:ARTIST.

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Nomination of Nicole van Dam for deletion

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Don't write about yourself

Please do not write an article about yourself, as you did at Nicole van Dam. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – 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). 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 my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. ~Amatulić (talk) 01:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

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