Recently edited as a couple of different IP addresses. Now I have an account! Woo-woo!
My most recent IP, before creating my account, started in June 2022. I had 500 edits, mostly to WP space (the help desks). The two edits in 2008 for that IP were not mine.
I had a previous IP, which I'll find so that I know its starting date. My IP address is/was fairly static. In fact, it's the same now (late January 2023) as it was in June 2022. Interesting.
Good explanations
In a help desk, ColinFine said:
- Writing an article begins with finding the sources - and most of them have to be independent sources, so interviews don't help. Sources don't have to be online; but if the reliable independent sources don't exist, then he doesn't meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability, and it's not worth spending any time on it.
Very well put.
More great stuff from ColinFine:
- Trying to create an article before you have spent time learning how Wikipedia works and what its requirements are is often frustrating and miserable. We delete hundreds of articles and drafts a day, many of them by people who have started before they are ready. And if you are connected with the subject (so you have a conflict of interest) it is even harder, as you will need to forget everything you know about the person - and, especially, forget your opinions about them - and write based only on what the independent sources that you have found say about the person. Please read your first article, as well as about notability.
Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.
Page
An encyclopedia article, not a social-media-type "page".
Misc
No one, whether paid or not, can guarantee that they can create an article that won't be deleted. You should not pay anyone to create an article (or to create and submit a draft) for you. (My words)
I'm sorry if you put in a lot of work into a doomed project; but I'm afraid that that is often the experience of new users who plunge into trying to create an article before they have learnt the basics of Wikipedia's requirements. (ColinFine)
Focus on finding reliable, independent, secondary sources and summarizing what they say, without any reference to what the subject of the article would like it to say. 199.208.172.35
Wikipedia does not have any "company pages" or "company profiles". Instead, we have encyclopedia articles about business that meet the very strict standards described at Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies).
Do not think of YouTube as a source. Think of it instead as a platform that hosts millions of videos, each one of which needs to have its reliability evaluated independently. (Cullen328)
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Teahouse
Deleting images
How does one start the image deletion process? How do I contact an admin? 2603:8001:D300:6C00:7C28:B9EF:3B3C:655C (talk) 21:09, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello. If the image is hosted here on the English Wikipedia, the proper place is Wikipedia:Files for discussion. If it is hosted on Wikimedia Commons, you will need to discuss it there. Cullen328 (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Simplified Ruleset
[[WP:SR|summary of rules and policies]]
Templates for help desks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:HD
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Reliable
published in a Reliable source that is independent of the person.
Username
If you are not xxxxx, you will need to change your username. Cannot use his name as your username unless you are him. Please go to Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS to make a change request.
backwards
You need to create the draft from what the sources say, rather than writing the draft and then hoping to find supporting material. There is an essay about this that you should read (link)
Ha
@Hoary "Upsurge", I like that! I may start using it, if I can figure out what it means. American, eh? Hmmmm.... David10244 (talk) 06:41, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Don't just be a user, @David10244. No point talking the talk if you don't also walk the walk. Upsurge your brand's discernibility; do it today. (Obvious first steps: (i) Lots of userboxes; (ii) Gimmicky signature.) -- Hoary (talk) 07:07, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Misc
summarise what reliable published sources have said
when writing a Wikipedia article, you should only be summarising what published sources have said