User talk:Cubots The Origins

September 2017
It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account, for the simple reason that very often people come to Wikipedia and falsely claim to have copyright rights that in fact they don't have. In the case of your user page, the content is published on a page which bears the copyright notice "© 2017 Valve Corporation. All rights reserved", so it is highly unlikely that it has been licensed for free reuse.

Apart from copyright, there were other reasons why the page would have been deleted sooner or later anyway, such as the fact that it was somewhat promotional in tone, and the fact that a user page is for someone who is active in working for the project to give a little information about himself or herself in connection with his or her work for the encyclopaedia, not a place to post content unrelated to work for Wikipedia.

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) 12:28, 28 September 2017 (UTC)