User talk:GreaterLonginus

Your submission at Articles for creation: Insular F (October 20)
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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:32, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Some advice on getting started
Hello, and welcome to contributing to Wikipedia. I hope you will have a successful time here, but I see that your first submission has been declined. 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 draft you have made is, in my opinion, better than many drafts submitted by new editors, but it is not suitable un its present form because it has no references. I actually don't know whether there exist suitable sources which would establish that the subject us notable in Wikipedia's terms or not, but with some more experience of editing Wikipedia you will be able to decide whether they do, and either add suitable sources to show notability or else decide that the subject doesn't satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and not spend more time on it.

Below I am posting some links to various policies, guidelines, and information pages. You may find some of them helpful. There is far too much there to read all of it straight off, but have a look and see if there's anything there that's useful to you now, and of course you can come back to them in the future if you need further information. JBW (talk) 08:55, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello GreaterLonginus! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement.

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Concern regarding Draft:Insular F
Hello, GreaterLonginus. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Insular F, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:23, 24 March 2022 (UTC)