User talk:Chris Myer

MfD nomination of User:Chris Myer

User:Chris Myer, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Chris Myer and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Chris Myer during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. MER-C 11:38, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Restoring your user page

Hi Chris, if you don't mind, I'll move the conversation over here, as I'm archiving my talk page (here's a link to that for reference; please don't respond there). The relevant policy (technically guideline) about biographies on user pages doesn't prohibit biographies as such. Your page fell under something broadly referred to as "Excessive unrelated content"; WP:USERBIO links to the specific line about "Inappropriate or excessive personal information unrelated to Wikipedia." I'm somewhat ashamed to say that we really don't explain that very well. What does that mean? Unfortunately, it's generally judged on a Potter Stewart standard. In practice, the more active you are on Wikipedia, the more biographical content is tolerated. I won't name any names, but there's at least one very active Wikipedian with what I would objectively say is "excessive" biographical information, yet this was not deleted at WP:MFD, i.e., the same process where yours was deleted.

Anyway, to get you what you had written, why don't you use the "Email this user" feature on my user page or talk page. It should be on the left side of the screen, under "Tools" (you may have to expand the list if it's collapsed). Send me an email, so I'll see yours, and I can send you a reply with what you had written. Sound good? --BDD (talk) 17:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and leave me a message on my talk page to get back in touch. --BDD (talk) 18:46, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]