User talk:Djandju

AfD nomination of Chicago_reggae
An article that you have been involved in editing, Chicago_reggae, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Jesse (talk) 13:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi, Djandju. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck!  Chzz  ►  04:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Making an article, etc
Hi there.

In response to your nice note on my talk page, and also seeing the 'Article for deletion'...

I know that Wikipedia can seem quite daunting at first. We try to make it as easy as possible; the whole idea is that anyone can make a page, and edit things. Unfortunately, with 3 million articles and 10 million users, some complexity is unavoidable.

Your article, as it is, is not suitable for inclusion and will therefore be deleted. Please don't let that put you off.

Articles have to be about something that is notable - something that appears in several reliable sources, so that the facts can be verified. We have come up with these policies through discussion, because we (that is, the community, including you) - need to keep some kind of control over what articles we can and cannot have. We've decided that we should only have articles that can be checked out from newspaper articles, books, magazines etc. We don't do any original research.

That doesn't mean that your ideas are worthless though. I think, at some point, some of those ideas will be great to either make an article or add to an existing article.

My tips are as follows;

1. Come and talk to us with this.

2. Follow the ideas in the 'welcome' above - make a test page, have a play around.

3. Edit some existing articles to get the hang of things.

4. Ask for help whenever you need it.

Good luck, and I hope I can help you.

The first point was the most important, and might get lost in this posting, so I'll ask again here at the end: Please come and say hello with this.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  00:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)