User talk:Cgalde

January 2016
The article Shadowgraphs(Band) has been speedily deleted, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. There were two reasons for this: the article was unmistakably promotional in tone, and it was substantially copied from another web site, possibly infringing copyright, and certainly violating Wikipedia's copyright policy, which requires proof of copyright permission: we don't assume that there is permission. I also think it only fair to warn you that I am very doubtful whether the band satisfies Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and if it doesn't then any work put into writing an article about the band is likely to be wasted, as any article on the subject is likely to be deleted. (No amount of editing or rewriting an article can change the notability of the subject of the article.)

My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:42, 10 January 2017 (UTC)