User talk:Jeffreydavidmorris

MfD nomination of User:Jeffreydavidmorris

User:Jeffreydavidmorris, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jeffreydavidmorris and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Jeffreydavidmorris during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 12:03, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

This above is a standard procedural message to let you know the CV you uploaded onto your user page will be deleted. This is because wikipedia is an encyclopaedia rather than a listing or directory service. --Cameron Scott (talk) 12:22, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Jeffreydavidmorris

A tag has been placed on User:Jeffreydavidmorris, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of User:Jeffreydavidmorris and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 18:13, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

The problem with your page

Thank you for your message on my talk page - I will leave my reply here rather than on there, to make it easier for you to see. If you have any further comments to make, you can either reply here or on my talk page, as I will see either.

The main problem is that you seem to think that wikipedia is a web host. It is not (see Wikipedia is not a web host.

It is not here to have your CV. The purpose of a user page (and a user talk page) is to discuss and help with creating articles on Wikipedia, which is an encyclopedia.

To answer the other comments you made:

• I didn't understand some of the user/creator setting's, to make this the way I want it. - Again, this is not a web host where you can personalise your user page to make it look nice.
• I wanted a different background skin, other stuff as well. It's great having all the many feature's, but it's overly confusing to many, when all the info should be (untop new page, misc creator's) simplified. - the whole purpose of this site is to create an encyclopedia. So far (as I type), your contributions to wikipedia are as below:
  • 13:13, 16 August 2009 User talk:Phantomsteve ‎ (→Help with my new created page, ETC;: new section) your message on my talk page
  • 12:51, 16 August 2009 Wikipedia:Help desk ‎ (→New user here, with new page & need review of it & what I can do;: new section) your request for help on the Help Desk, basically asking what you asked on my page 22 minutes later
  • 12:12, 16 August 2009 User:Jeffreydavidmorris ‎ (My Page) Putting your CV on your user page
  • 12:06, 16 August 2009 User:Jeffreydavidmorris/myskin.css ‎ (Blue Matrix) (top) trying to personalise your user space.

Let me say it again - the purpose of wikipedia is to develop an online encyclopedia. You have as yet contributed nothing to that - and yet you want to use advanced options.

May I suggest that you do the follow:

1. Delete your CV from your user page, as this type of content is not allowed on them
2. Read the various guidelines for wikipedia which I give in the section following this one
3. Contribute to the encyclopedia - start with minor edits, adding verifiable information to an established article with relevant citations, etc.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 16:48, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Please read my standard welcome message, which gives links to the guidelines for Wikipedia:

Welcome, Jeffreydavidmorris! Hello, Jeffreydavidmorris, 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: The five pillars of Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page How to write a great article Manual of Style You might also find these policies and guidelines useful: What do we mean if we say that you might have a Conflict of Interest? What do we mean by Neutral Point of View? What sources are counted as reliable? What makes the subject of an article notable? Why was my page deleted? An essay containing a List of bad article ideas I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Getting the articles just right can be tricky - but there are lots of people to ask! If you have any questions check out Wikipedia:Questions. There are several ways of getting help: Leave a message on this page. It is on my watchlist, which means that I can see when the page is changed! Leave a message on my talk page Go into IRC Channel #wikipedia-en-help Leave a message on this page starting with {{helpme}} followed by your question - someone in the IRC help room will be over as soon as possible Leave a question on the Help Desk or on the New Contributors' Help Page By the way, when you are writing on a discussion page (or someone's talk page), it is considered good manners to sign your comment... to do this, just add ~~~~ at the end of your comment. That will put your user name (Jeffreydavidmorris) and the date/time at the end (or you can click on the icon when you are editing. Never sign on an article page - only on a discussion page. I am now going to sign below this box with my signature, by adding ~~~~ here:

You might also want to read:

1. Wikipedia's guidelines on user pages, in particular:
   1. What may I have on my user page?
   2. What may I not have on my user page? - especially noting where it says Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a Wikipedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the project.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 16:48, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

A further word... of encouragement!

Please don't take what I have written above as a personal attack. Wikipedia needs more editors - every editor has information which they know (or have access to) which others do not have.

It is this collaborative work which makes Wikipedia as strong as it is. Without editors around the world creating and improving articles, there would not be a Wikipedia!

However, as you can appreciate, there have to be guidelines for what should and should not be on wikipedia - and that includes user space as well as article space.

Although your user page as it stands is unsuitable, this does not mean that we do not want you to contribute to the encyclopedia - quite the reverse, in fact - if you are willing to learn how to create a user page, you can learn how to add information to articles and (in time) create new articles.

If you have any questions, you can leave a message for me here (this page is on my watchlist - a list of pages for which I can see when changes have been made) or on my talk page . Either way, I will reply to you as quickly as I can, bearing in mind that like all editors on wikipedia, I am a volunteer, and I have a real life!

Incidently, when you make an edit, underneath the "Edit summary" box (where you briefly describe what you have done in the edit), there are two boxes: one is the "This is a minor edit" box. The other is "Watch this page".

Try to make sure that if make minor changes (e.g. correcting a typo, etc) then this is ticked (see Help:Minor edit for examples of what is considered minor). If you are making a non-minor change (e.g. re-writing a section, creating a new section), make sure that this is unticked. Also, in "preferences", under the 'Editing' tab, there is an option "Mark all edits minor by default" - if this is ticked, all edits will be "minor", unless you specifically untick the "This is a minor edit" box - if this is unticked, all edits will be non-minor, unless you specifically tick the "This is a minor edit" box.

If you tick the "Watch this page" box, then the page will be added to your watchlist (otherwise it will not)... to see the most recent changes on the pages on your watchlist, just click on the "my watchlist" text at the very top of the page.. this will lead to your watchlist.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 18:01, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Reply to your email

You asked "How can I then, have a decent, nice, exhibited Wikipedia webpage, like other’s out there" - this is not a general website, it is not a CV directory, it is not a social media website, and it is not a recruitment website.

It is an encyclopedia. User pages (such as User:Jeffreydavidmorris exist for the benefit of the project - not to self-promote. Their use is for some basic information about yourself - not a CV.

You might want to read Wikipedia:User pages which explains what you may or may not have.

From the "may not" section: Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a Wikipedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the project.

In short, basically you cannot have a "decent, nice, exhibited Wikipedia webpage" as you wanted, as that is not the purpose of the site.

I notice from your contributions that you have not edited anything other than your pages, and a single query on the help desk. Do you intend on editing articles or creating them? If you explain what you want to do on Wikipedia, I could give advice/links to help you.

Regards, PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 10:51, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Update - please re-read the above reply to your query - the advice is still the same! PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 05:06, 19 March 2013 (UTC)