User talk:Nigel Barley

Welcome![edit]

Hello Nigel Barley, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Satu Suro 13:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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H. Rider Haggard[edit]

Please don't add your book to H. Rider Haggard again. It is not a notable book and doesn't give important additional information on Haggard. I notice that you did the same in E. Nesbit. Please don't use Wikipedia for self-promotion. Fram (talk) 12:12, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to the Nigel Barley (anthropologist) article[edit]

Hi, I see there have been a few problems round at the bio article. It's quite difficult for an author used to writing freely about topics of all sorts to write an encyclopedia entry, especially one constrained by Wikipedia's mass of policies. The key considerations are the provision of third-party (independent, neutral, reliable) claims and sources; these are held to be the only verifiable evidence of notability. You'll have guessed that many of the terms in the last sentence are the names of policies. Further, any claims in an article, even if stated plainly and factually, not supported by such sources are considered to be at best unverified, at worst 'original research': such things may be deleted by any editor without further ado. A Wikipedia entry is thus very different from a magazine article, a CV, or a brief bio in a publisher's puff or the blurb for a talk. We'd really appreciate it if you could provide suitable sources for anything you add to the article. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:12, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]