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'''''''I have a college degree. You are a high school dropout.'''''''
 
You may have a [[Ph.D.]] in the subject. You may workbe an internationally recognized expert on the topic. You may have worked in the field for decades. But your own personal knowledge cannot be publishedincluded in Wikipedia unless it can be [[WP:V|verified]] in [[WP:RS|reliable sources]].
 
Wikipedia is supposed to be a collection of <u>sourced</u> material, not [[WP:INDISCRIMINATE|indiscriminate information]]. Unverified contribution of material in a subject of one's own so-called expertise may be [[WP:OR|original research]]. If one has direct involvement with a company, organization or individual that the article is about, this may violate [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]] guidelines.