User talk:Capike

By the way, "welcome to Wikipedia" - the following might give you some links to explain a couple of things better than I can...

Welcome!

Hello, Capike, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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The Universal Terran Church[edit]

Well, Wikipedia is not a web directory. The external linking policy prohibits linking to blogs, Yahoo groups or other forums. They do not add to the encyclopedic nature of the article.

However, now that I see you are the author of the book used as a source for the article, and that the book is self-published and w/o an ISBN number, I think that your article violates Wikipedia conflict of interest and vanity and spam prohibitions. Most likely, it does not meet Wikipedia notability requirements as well. Therefore I am nominating it for deletion. Please note that it is considered a conflict of interest to vote in the AfD discussion without revealing your relationship to the organization and sources. Nothing personal, but I feel that you are simply using Wikipedia to promote your organization. At the very least, the article will have to be rewritten to be shorter and more encyclopedic, and your conflict of interest prohibits you from editing the article further yourself. Jefferson Anderson 17:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that an AfD has nothing to do with "votes". It has to do with whether the article meets the three pillars of Wikipedia: verifiablity, no original research, and neutral point of view. If no reputable third-party has written about your church - if you are the only source, the article cannot appear on Wikipedia. In any case, the conflict of interest policy prohibits you or other members of the church from writing an article about it. Jefferson Anderson 21:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plus, all organizations have to meet the Wikipedia notability requirements. Spamming the AfD would not have helped at all. "Votes" by associates and members are completely discounted. Only the opinions of established editors who contribute to Wikipedia in multple ways get full weight. So please don't call in your friends and family to "vote" to keep something that doesn't meet all the Wikipedia standards I've pointed out. Jefferson Anderson 21:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]