# விக்கிப்பீடியா:தன்வரலாறு

## Creating an article about yourself

If your life and achievements are verifiable and genuinely notable, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See .)  
Creating an article about yourself is *strongly* discouraged.
- Independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to , , and . Even if you did manage to pull off an autobiography conforming to our content policies it still may not get checked simply because *you* made it.
- If no third party has yet created an article about you, there is the danger that, should the article be vandalised, there will be no interested editors watching and the vandalism may remain uncorrected for long periods.
- Self-created articles are often listed on . Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not *start* articles about yourself. Beware that third-party comments may be most uncomplimentary.
- Many people exaggerate their own significance or notability above what third parties would think. If you are not under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion.  
Note that anything you submit will be edited mercilessly by others. Many autobiographical articles have been a source of dismay to their original authors after a period of editing by the community, and in at least four instances have been listed for deletion by their original authors. In some cases the article is kept even if the original author requests otherwise.  
If you create an autobiography you must have **no** promotional intent and **must** be willing to accept it being neutralized if it is not neutral, or even deleted if it comes to that. If you do turn out to be notable, you must expect the article to stay&mdash;you cannot just get it deleted because you are not happy with it. Our policy is absolute and non-negotiable, and *all* encyclopedic topics are fair game for Wikipedia.  
One thing which you can do to assist other Wikipedia editors is, if you already maintain a personal website, please ensure that any information that you want in your Wikipedia article is already on your own website. As long as it's not involving grandiose claims like, "I was the first to create this widget," or "My book was the biggest seller that year," a personal website *can* be used as a reference for general biographical information. As the policy states: *Self-published sources and other published sources of dubious reliability may be used as sources in articles about themselves ... so long as the information is notable, not unduly self-aggrandizing, and not contradicted by other published sources.*  
Finally one should also make considerations of time and effort upon the Wikipedia community, as well as one's reputation. Even if you *do* manage to pull off a neutral, verifiable autobiography, the very fact that so many autobiographies have not been that way has trained Wikipedians to expect the opposite—and hence one may be wasting their time or effort if they become provoked by the fact it's still an *autobiography*, regardless of policy compliance. Furthermore this may also result in a reputation hit not only because you violated the guideline but also because you may have wasted someone's effort.  
The proper way to get your own writing about yourself in if you really think you can meet the inclusion criteria *and* are willing to accept having a neutral, non-promotional article is to make a *proposal* containing the text you want, instead of just putting it up directly, and seek the consensus of the community through discussion. Not only does this provide independent viewpoints on it that can allow you to discover biases you were not aware of having, it also helps provide an indication of good faith and that you are willing to put the interests of Wikipedia first instead of standing in a position of conflict of interest.