User talk:Elovesme99

Welcome!

Hello, Elovesme99, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Appropriate articles[edit]

Again welcome to wikipedia. It is policy in wikipedia Please do not bite the newcomers and so I post this comment in a constructive manner to help you grasp wikipolicies. Please do not take any of this personally - I hope you become a regular and useful contributor and please do feel free to ask me or any other user questions you might have.

I think you should have a close look at the guidelines on Citing, Verification and Reliable sources. In addition Wikipedia:Your first article as to what to do or not do.

Articles that merely advertise a company or website are inappropriate. Hence I have suggested that Www.PregnancyJourneysAfterLoss.com, which seems to be an advert for a web site promoting a book, be deleted. This will be voted either for or against at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Www.PregnancyJourneysAfterLoss.com

This is an encyclopaedia and so it reports on notable subjects and their reporting by others. Thus a book (such as Childless Mother) is not deserving for inclusion in wikipedia just because it exists, but rather the book must be notable for a reason and one must be able to cite an appropriate source to verify that this is so. I have therefore also nominated Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Childless Mother.

I am posting this message out of courtesy to explain to a newbie my reasons for nominating these pages. If you wish to vote and comment why these articles should not be deleted, please do so on the relevent AfD pages (links as above), starting your post with:
:*'''Keep''' - your comment.
For further details on the process of nominating, voting and deciding on articles to be deleted, please see WP:AfD.

You will also note that I and some other editors removed the links to these pages you placed on other articles. As with any other editor, you are free to disagree with those revertions and re-revert back. However please note the Wikipedia:Three Revert Rule. Mostly the links were only tangentially related to the article in question or failled to add specific information on the topic. Links to seemingly advertising sites are also felt to be inappropriate.

I would guess from your recent contributions that you have a particular interest in the topic of child-loss. Might I suggest that you initially look at the articles' edit histories and talk-page discussions and if you have any suggestions for further article development, to post these on the relevant talk-page. Other users I am sure will assume good faith and engage with you in contructive dialogue on your suggestions. David Ruben ^Talk 02:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments on my talk page. The issue is not whether the subject matter is important (bereavement of ones child clearly is, as is perhaps comment on the topic seeming to remain a taboo topic), nor whether you are well qualified to write on the subject (for which your comments would seem to support). Instead the issues were of writing about your own work or website which is explicitly prohibited by the relevant policies. Hence, if President Bush writes a book on politics then both the author and the subject matter are important, but he should not write his own encyclopaedic entry about that book. Similarly if an unknown author writes about the President with brilliant new insights into the effects of his policies, then however important these ideas might be to us as readers of the book, it fails to meet the criteria for notability & thus inclusion until a reliable source refers to the book. Until then its just our opinion which, however correct it is might be, is banned – see No Original Research (NOR).

So, I wish you well for your book's publication and hope it helps others to cope or understand the topic better. Meanwhile if you wish to improve wikipedia's content on these topics then see if the articles on bereavement, still birth etc can be improved (i.e. the articles themselves, rather than adding links to your own published material). If you are unsure what changes might be appropriate, then raise you suggestions on the article’s talk pages for other to discuss & debate :-) (Please remember that all material posted to wikipedia is under the GNU Free Documentation License, see Wikipedia:Copyright for details).

As a general fault, doctors who contribute to wikipedia, will tend to write articles that are too technical in their introductions or read like a medical textbook rather than a general encyclopaedia. So non-medical editors interested in medicine & health who have good writing skills are always appreciated on the medically-related articles. See Wikipedia:Wikiproject Clinical Medicine project and the discussion area (the "doctors mess") of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine.

Look forward to seeing you around, and again do ask of myself or any other editor for any help or queries that you might have. We were all newbies once and hopefully have not become too arrogant not to extend the welcome & assistance we initially had & continue to receive from those more experienced :-) David Ruben ^Talk 14:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page[edit]

I hope you saw a message on your screen to indicate that you had a new message. Please see Wikipedia:User page for more details about your user page, and what you can put on it. You may want to investigate Wikipedia:Userboxes to indicate your interests etc, although some wikipedians frown on excessive use of these.

Note that, by convention, users do not generally edit each others user pages, but rather put comments or messages for them on their talk pages. I hope that's helped. --Estarriol ^talk 15:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]