User talk:Gothic Serenity

Re: Questions
Hi there. I notice you've been given one of the welcome templates, which will help answer some things, but here are some answers to target your actual questions:


 * Requests for page protection and unprotection go to WP:RFPP. This includes full protection, semi-protection, creation protection (aka "salting") and move-protection, which are explained somewhere on that page (or one linked to it).
 * The answer to "How do I create a new page?" is to go to a page that doesn't exist (either by following a red link - The weather in London is an example except that it's protected from creation - or by searching for a non-existant title), and clicking on "edit this page" up the top. However, the question that people often fail to ask is "How do I create a new page that won't get deleted?" The answer to that lies in the following canned message:
 * Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.


 * Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.


 * If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Your first article and How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation.


 * Finally, there are lots of places you can go to for help - the New contributors' help page, which you've already found, the Help desk, which serves a similar function but tends to have more traffic (so there are more people to answer your question, but also possibly more questions that might bury yours). You can also use the template - just edit this page with  and a question, and someone should be along to try to answer it soon. Hope that helps, Confusing Manifestation (Say hi!) 23:20, 25 June 2008 (UTC)