Virginie59

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Hello, Virginie59, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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June 2013

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. 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. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:41, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Replies to your requests for help

Salut, Virginie, et bienvenue à Wikipedia en anglais.

You have made a good job of writing a page about yourself, and I see no problem with it, except that there is not enough indication of notability. Wikipedia does not have articles about just anything, but requires the subjects of the articles to satisfy certain notability standards. There are several notability guidelines, but the ones which are most relevant in your case are the general notability guideline and the guideline on entertainers. There seem to me to be two important points relating to notability:

1. It is necessary to have reliable independent sources, both to show notability and to verify the content of the article. IMDb does not serve this purpose, for two reasons. Firstly, it accepts user-submitted content, so it is not an entirely reliable source. Secondly (and in my opinion more importantly) it is very inclusive, accepting pages on almost anyone who has ever taken part in the making of almost any film, even people who have had only very minor involvement, which means that having an IMDb page is no guarantee at all of significance or notability.
2. I have searched for information about you, and found that you have appeared in a large number of films and television series. However, nothing I have seen suggests that you have had major roles in them.

Please understand that I am not saying that you do not satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines, but I am saying that neither what you have written in your page nor anything I have been able to find shows that you do. If you can produce evidence that you do, then there will be no problem with having an article about you, but there is an important "if" there. Also, don't make the mistake that many people in your situation make of immediately concentrating on the question "how can I show that I am notable". You would be much better advised to first carefully consider the question "do I satisfy Wikipedia's notability standards", and only if and when you have found that the answer is "yes" should you consider how to show that you do. The reason that I am emphasising that is to help you avoid the risk of wasting a lot of your time on working on an article which is never going to be accepted. Over the years I have seen many people do that, and eventually become totally frustrated, and I am trying to help you avoid that experience. No amount of rewriting an article will change the notability of the subject of that article.

You also asked how you can change the name of the page. Assuming that you are using the default interface for Wikipedia, known as "Vector", go to the page you wrote, and look at the list of links along the top of the page, beginning "User page", "Talk", "Read", "Edit". Towards the right hand end of them, you should see a little downward pointing triangle, and if you hold your mouse pointer over it, you will probably see a link labelled "Move". Click on that link, and find the boxes labelled "To new title". Change "User" to "(Article)", and replace the current title "Virginie59/sandbox" with the new title you want, probably "Virginie Visconti". Put a short explanation in the box labelled "Reason" (I suggest something like "Article is ready to publish".) Click on "Move page", and that should do it. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)