BKKJim

July 2009

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August 2009

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Harold Stephens (author). This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

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Footnotes

This may help you out Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 11:07, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Harold Stephens (author)

Hello, for help with the article, I would recommend reading the links in the messages I left above, and also the links in the tags put on the page. Your First Article is a good resource as well. Additionally you can see a list of good articles and look at bios to see examples.

Also, can you please explain why your user page is redirecting to this article? Thank You --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 21:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

Thanks for your note and for your helpful suggestions. I will get to work on them at my first opportunity. As far as the redirect goes, I didn't really know how to get the page "live", so to speak and thought the redirect from my "user" page was the way to do it. I will try to correct that as well.

Thanks again for your help and your interest!

Bye for now,

BKKJim (----)

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Much Better overall. Some comments about minor issues -

• For the "see also" section, see here WP:SEEALSO
• For external link formatting, go to WP:EL .. there's a section on how to create them
• The parts about his wife/family sounds more like a press release rather than an encyclopedia. Nothing wrong with listing who is family is, but there's commentary/original research in there with a weird tone

Nice work --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 10:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)