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I recommend you read Wikipedia:Autobiography, just to get a feel for how people treat autobiographies around here. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Regards, riana_ dzasta 07:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I think most regulars on Wikipedia would be at least a little bit sketched out by someone writing a biography about themselves on this page, even if you are notable, it has conflict of interest and original research written all over it. Consider backing off from the article and asking some other editors to do their own source searching to make the article happen. Not to be harsh, but if nobody cares about your article, it's not going to get worked on anytime soon. To flip that around, since your article hasn't really been worked on much, it doesn't appear that people care about it, and it's simply not going to get worked on fast.
Your article has not a single reference cited. This is very bad. You should do some reading on Wikipedia policy. Like Riana said above, I would recommend putting it up for AfD and see where it goes from there. If the community wants the article to even be here, then it will stay. As you can see, creating an account, just to make a biography about yourself, is very much frowned upon. If you need help with the AfD, let me know. Wikidan829 16:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your note and for your advice. At your suggestion, I have done more reading of Wikipedia Policy and particularly about references. I have some further questions and hope you will have time to look them over and answer me.
Please note that since Riana first wrote to me, a number changes have taken place over a period of months. The aritcle was marked for possible deletion in January. Also a number of suggestions were made regarding internal and external links and about the location of references for my Emmy. I then added a large number of internal and then external links, including several for the Emmy Award. After all these changes were made, the tag for possible deletion was removed, and instead, a tag was placed on the talk page say that the article had been accepted as a Wikibiography Project and was awaiting evaluation - or at least, that's how I read it. So if I understand what I read correctly, the issue of deletion has been dealt with since Riana made the suggestion above.
Regarding references: The Wikipedia section on references says that particularly when negetive or potentially libelous material is written, then references are essential. Since my aritcle doesn't contain any negetive or controversial material and since I site links for almost all of the credits and organiztions in the article, I'm not sure what other references would be useful or necessary. There is an aritcle about me in the Marquis Who's Who which I could site if this would be considered a useful reference.
Lastly, several of my colleagues, none of whom are more notable, have written aritcles about themselves and have not had these issues come up and have note been taged at all. Why, then is this happening with my article? Please note that in the various tags and discussions, there seemed to be some dissagreement about whether the aritcle should have been taged. I would appreciate hearing your reaction to the above. Thank you. Stephen 00:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)