User talk:David Edward (Dave) Parr

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Hello, David Edward (Dave) Parr, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you created was David Edward (Dave) Parr, which appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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June 2015
Hello, Dave, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. The page which you created at David Edward (Dave) Parr has been moved to User:David Edward (Dave) Parr, because it is unsuitable as an encyclopaedia article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information on just anything, and for a topic to be the subject of an article, it has to satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines, which you do not appear to do. Even as a user page, where it is now, the page may well be subject to deletion, as it appears to be use of Wikipedia to host a personal web page, rather than information about yourself in connection with work for the encyclopaedia, which is the purpose of a Wikipedia user page. If you are interested in contributing to the encyclopaedia on subjects other than yourself, then you are of course very welcome to do so. 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 (which you will, because we all do) 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. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is have a personal web page about yourself, then Wikipedia is not the right place for you, and you would be better advised using either a web-page hosting site or a social networking site. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)