User talk:85.232.214.223

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[edit] Date articles

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry to undo your edit, but it's generally agreed that we shouldn't add people who don't have articles about them to date pages, as you (or someone using this IP) did to February 7. But you're definitely encouraged to write and improve articles! You might also want to check out Wikipedia's notability criteria for people. Leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions, need any help, or want to discuss anything. Thanks for editing! Delldot on a public computer (talk) 05:49, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note! The first thing that you should know is that a person has to be notable in order to have an article in Wikipedia; they need to meet the criteria at WP:BIO. If we're talking about Antoine Zammit, I did a quick Google search on him and I don't think I see enough material on him to make an article. See, every article has to have reliable sources that are independent of the subject in order to back up every statement made in the article; this is our very fundamental verifiability policy. So if not enough has been written about the subject, we can't have an article on him. If you are Mr. Zammit, please also see WP:AUTO for an explanation of why you shouldn't write an article on yourself.
However, maybe I'm mistaken about who you want to write the article on. If you feel that your subject meets WP:N and you have sufficient reliable sources, you should definitely create the article! You'll need to create an account, since page creation is currently turned off for anonymous editors. Then I recommend working on the article first in your userspace, i.e. any page beginning with your username and a slash (an example of a page in my own userspace would be user:delldot/note). That way you can get others to look at and help you before you move it to the main article space (pages with no prefix). Please let me know if you want any help or further explanation of this! Peace, Delldot on a public computer (talk) 03:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey again, thanks for responding and for being so reasonable. I don't think that the link you provided is enough to establish his notability, are there other sources? That is, has he been written about in news sources, books, or journals? If we can't write an article with every claim backed up by reliable sources, we can't have the article. If you'd like me to create the article, please provide me with links to articles or otehr material written on him. Thanks much! Peace, delldot talk 15:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)