Welcome! edit

Hello, Hagybear, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Autobiographies are strongly discouraged edit

  Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Hagay Mizrahi. 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. — Sam Sailor 13:09, 23 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hagay Mizrahi edit

If I were you, I would put a leash on that paid editor right now and ask for a refund. — Sam Sailor 06:24, 26 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

yes i just did !! thank you so much for your help !! i need your advice can you email me ? :

thanks again ! —  Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagybear (talkcontribs) 08:49, 26 August 2016‎

  • I was writing the following message when you just posted your messages saying "yes i just did" and asking for help, and now you have posted that, my message may be less relevant, but having written it I may as well let you see it anyway (or at least a cut-down version of it, as I have removed stuff specifically relating to the paid editor that you have now indicated you won't be using again). I am also removing your email address, because posting your email address to a publicly visible page on Wikipedia is really not a good idea. I see that you have got Wikipedia email enabled in your account settings, so Sam will be able to email you by using Wikipedia's email service if he wants to, and that does not need your email address to be publicly visible. However, having said that, if the help you are asking for is about re-creating the article about yourself, I advise you to consider very carefully whether you wish to put more time and effort into that, for reasons explained in the message below. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

  • I have no doubt that you started by sincerely thinking that getting a Wikipedia article about yourself would be a good and perfectly legitimate way of publicising yourself and your work. Many people do come here thinking that is an acceptable thing to do. However, it isn't, for three reasons. (1) Wikipedia is not a medium for promotion. (2) Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest indicate that articles should not be created by people with a personal connection to the subject of the article, such as being paid by the subject of the article. (2) As you have already been told by at least two editors (including myself), there does not seem to be sufficient evidence that you satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and if you don't then any article about you, no matter who writes it or how it is written, is likely to be deleted, so continually having the article re-created will be nothing but a waste of time and effort that could be better spent publicising yourself somewhere other than Wikipedia. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

hi JamesBWatson, thank you for this critical and important information i have lots of evidence i am not sure how Wikipedia works and now you have clarified it to me and thank you for that ! i totally had no idea! appreciate your help!