User talk:CanonicalMormon

Wikipedia Help Survey
Hi there, my name's Peter Coombe and I'm a Wikimedia Community Fellow working on a project to improve Wikipedia's help system. At the moment I'm trying to learn more about how people use and find the current help pages. If you could help by filling out this brief survey about your experiences, I'd be very grateful. It should take less than 10 minutes, and your responses will not be tied to your username in any way.

Thank you for your time,

the wub (talk) 17:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC) (Delivered using Global message delivery)

What Wikipedia isn't
I'm sorry no one has noticed what you are doing any time in the last 11 years. That's unfortunately a weakness in volunteer organizations that are managed bottom up such as English Wikipedia.

It is also indicative of our work in improving integration of new volunteers into the community today vs 2008 when you signed up. We've started several new initiatives such as Teahouse, a Q&A forum especially for new users, and an editing simulation called The Wikipedia Adventure.

All that long winded lead-up is due to the fact you need to know something very dissapointing. Nothing whatsoever that you've done since you've been here has been within the policies we have, and because of that, violates our terms of use. You could be blocked immediately. No one wants that.

I don't pretend to know why you are doing what you are doing, but what you are doing is using Wikipedia as a webhost for your work. That's not allowed (see WP:NOTWEBHOST). You've not made one single edit to the encyclopedia itself, nor have you communicated with anyone here. That would indicate you are what we call NOTHERE. Your userpage violates the content guideline WP:UP and can be deleted immediately. You don't want that, I'm sure. That's a lot of work.

Going forward? My first suggestion would be to acknowledge your understanding of this message. We are all volunteers and if you have no interest in becoming an encyclopedia editor, there's little reason to waste my volunteer time on you. Second, read how to do a page move at WP:PAGEMOVE and move your userpage to User:CanonicalMormon/sandbox. If you don't understand, ask for help at the Teahouse. I'd do it, but only registered editors like yourself can move pages. WP:FAKEARTICLE explains some if the problems with your userpage. Third, you really need to start actually editing the encyclopedia. It's not terribly difficult, and trust ne, you can't break it. See WP:BEBOLD. Learn the pillar policies, use the resources you have available and just go for it. You sure appear to have mastered the markup, so now all you gotta do is learn how we collaborate, understand the pillar policies, and HAVE FUN! 174.254.192.137 (talk) 03:40, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the information. I suppose 11 years is a long time to learn about Wikipedia without feeling comfortable making a contribution. In fairness though, I haven't been active on here for all of that time. I had some ideas 11 years ago that didn't pan out, and I got busy doing other things and abandoned it for a while. Recently, I have revisited my page on here. Is there a time limit for slow learners? I am still spending most of my time copying existing work and experimenting with formatting techniques. I have followed your advice and moved my experimental work to the sandbox. I hope that satisfies the concern for now so that I can continue learning and experimenting.