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_ Articles _ Not notable for a article? put your self promotion on your talk page instead.
Posted by: Brutus
This has got to be one of the most blatant attempts of using ones talk page for self promotion of that individuals commercial (real estate spruiker) interests. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rick_Otton
Other editors have been editing the user page over time as if it was an article. In reality it is an article as a Google search for Otton went straight to his Wikipedia user page.
As the old saying goes "if it walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, then it is", Rick Otton (with no other edits on Wikipedia) has is using his talk page as a defacto article.
The editor who uploaded Otton's profile photo on commons also works for Otton's company WBH - We buy houses.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jessicamillerwbh
Evidence
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jessica-miller/26/17b/a03
Johanne Climaco, another editior to the talk page article, also works at WBH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johanne.Climaco
Evidence
http://ph.linkedin.com/pub/johanne-climaco/4b/a91/73b
Posted by: Jay
Are user pages indexed by Google? If not, there's very little point since nobody will ever find it.
Posted by: Retrospect
Are user pages indexed by Google? If not, there's very little point since nobody will ever find it.
When did that ever stop a fuckwit?