User talk:Fvlks

December 2015
The article Period dynamics was unsuitable as a Wikipedia article, for several reasons. It was written less like a Wikipedia article than like a personal essay. It did not cover a topic, but merely made a few statements about a particular situation, which I failed to put into any context. However, the most serious problem was that it appeared to exist to promote or publicise a particular person's work, but use of Wikipedia for promotion, advertising, or publicising anything is not accepted. For that reason, the article has been deleted.

If your only purpose in coming here was to publicise that work, then my advice is that your time would be better employed in writing on one of the many web sites which host pages for personal use, since Wikipedia is not the right place for you. If, on the other hand, you are interested in contributing to Wikipedia on other topics, and this was just the topic you happened to choose first, then 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. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:18, 7 December 2015 (UTC)