User talk:Dexterpopwall

March 2007

Edits to Richard Hull

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, 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.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. –EdC 23:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, sorry. Jumping to conclusions, I'm afraid.

The first thing to note is that Wikipedia has a different article for each subject. That is, the Richard Hull who is a researcher in semantic ontology and "one of the world's leaders on natural language search systems, employed by NASA, Department of Defense, Merck, etc" should have an article at (presumably) Richard Hull (computer scientist). You can follow that link to create a new article, and then link to it from the top of the existing Richard Hull article.

Second, Wikipedia has very strict rules on copyright. Anything you add to Wikipedia must be entirely your own work, or released under a free content license (GFDL-compatible), or specifically released to Wikipedia for GFDL distribution by the author. Copying from a person's home page (as you did from [1]) is not OK. See WP:COPYRIGHT for more information. It's OK if the resulting article looks too short (a WP:STUB); if the subject is notable enough it will be expanded by other contributors later.

Hope this helps clear things up; I'll keep an eye on what you add or you can ask here or on my talk page if you need any more help or advice. –EdC 22:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)