okay so point one under wp notwebhost is the only one that could possibly be misinterpreted as applying in my case wait a minute webhost blog social networking etc none of that crap applies to me but i just noticed something nobody ever pointed out to me perhaps what i was doing was a wiki it says right there that wikis are often used for personal note taking so that's what i was doing wrong why didn't anyone tell me that i just need to figure out how to take my notes outside of wikipedia i can plainly see now that what i was doing in my user space was in violation of wikipedia's rules i can only credit myself though for discovering what i did wrong since nobody really pointed it out to me and i had to struggle on my own to figure out the problem now i have to figure out how to get the required software on my computer so i can continue to do my thing unhassled thank you for the challenging exercises in futility cyclopia i finally got it