DavidSmythe

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Hello DavidSmythe: Welcome to the English version of Wikipedia, I am BranStark.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: David Smythe (December 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:DavidSmythe/sandbox/David Smythe and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
• You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 23:56, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello! DavidSmythe, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 23:56, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Writing about yourself

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at User:DavidSmythe/sandbox/David Smythe. 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). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its 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 my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:33, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi DavidSmythe. After seeing your post at here, I figured I post the above message just for your information. I also suggest you take a look at Wikipedia:Ownership of content, Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Law of unintended consequences and Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing. Please be advised there's really no way that Wikipedia can prevent you from writing about yourself, but many people/companies/organizations, etc. incorrectly assume that creating such an article means that they will have some sort of final editorial control over its content. The editors who create these articles often find out rather quickly and rather harshly that this is not the case at all. Pretty much any page on Wikipedia can be edited at anytime by anyone in the world who can access the site. Registration is not required so people using an IP address can edit as well. The Wikipedia community encourages editors to comply with its various policies and guidelines, but some people choose not to and it may take time before such edits are discovered/evaluated by an experienced editor or bot.

Finally, there's no way to stop another editor from writing an article about you as long as you are considered notable per Wikipedia:Notability (people) and the article content complies with relevant policies/guidelines such as Wikipedia:Biographies of living people, etc., but in such cases you do have some recourse if the article becomes problematic as explained in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Dealing with articles about yourself. If, however, you try and create an article about yourself, you may be opening the door for someone else to take the article off in a direction that you might not agree with. You'd still have the same recourse in such a case, but some in the Wikipedia community might be a little less sympathetic to your concerns since you created the article yourself. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:01, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "DavidSmythe", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because even though Wikipedia does allow editors to use there real names as their username, editors whose real name is the same as that of a specific identifiable person may find their accounts temporarily blocked as a precaution to prevent any damaging impersonation.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:05, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi again DavidSmythe. I also posted the above for your reference. There's nothing wrong with using your real name as your username, but you may be asked to provide verification of your identity to make sure that another person is not impersonating you. I also suggest that you take a look at Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world for reference. User pages are like any other page in that they can be edited at anyone at anytime bascially because we do not own our userpages. I believe that user pages are set up so that they do not show up in Google searches, etc., but there is probably no 100% guarantee. Moreover, once someone finds your userpage, there's really no way to stop them from sharing that information with others. As I stated above, Wikpedia hopes that people posting on your userpage will do so in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines, but whether they do is ultimately up to them. To be frank, some people like to shoot first and ask questions later, and see no problem in trying using Wikipedia to right some great wrong or get back at someone with whom they might have an issue with. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:19, 25 December 2016 (UTC)