User talk:Livinontop13

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Arnesia) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. John Reaves (talk) 06:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:MADEUP. John Reaves (talk) 06:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia of factual information, not a place for your private jokes. - Mike Rosoft 06:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Did you read Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day (or at debate camp)? John Reaves (talk) 07:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You don't seem to understand the goals of Wikipedia. It's not here to be a webhost for people to share their inside jokes or a publisher of original thought, try Myspace or something if want it on the web. John Reaves (talk) 07:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * See WP:5. Do you really think what you wrote is acceptable for inclusion into an encyclopedia? John Reaves (talk) 07:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia may contain articles about jokes that are otherwise notable, such as the fictional Czech genius Jára Cimrman, or the "dihydrogen monoxide". It's not a place for articles that are jokes (i.e. patently untrue) themselves, and not a place for articles about your private jokes that nobody knows or cares about. - Mike Rosoft 10:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You'll have to ask Mike Rosoft, he's an admin and is able to recover the text. John Reaves (talk) 05:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I have been too harsh to you, but I am definitely not acting out of malice or some personal whim; I am just following the Wikipedia policies and guidelines. You have been given links to a few of them; now I'll spell them out to you:
 * Our speedy deletion criteria, including "patent nonsense" (articles that are obviously incoherent, meaningless, or untrue), as well as "vanity pages" (articles making no claim of notability of their subject).
 * What Wikipedia is not. In particular, Wikipedia is not a personal website. You asked me what harm it would do if we allowed your page to stay; instead, you should ask what would happen if we allowed anybody to create articles about themselves or their private jokes. It would defeat the purpose of our site to build an encyclopedia, don't you think?
 * Wikipedia is not a place for things made up in school, or for other private ideas. Of course, should if your idea turn into a notable fad circulating all around an Internet, then it might get a mention in some Wikipedia article. But the point is that Wikipedia can't be used to make something notable; in other words, it can't be used for any kind of promotional.
 * The notability guidelines. In general, the criterion is that a subject should have non-trivial mention in an independent outside source; otherwise, there's no way to verify its notability.
 * You have asked to recover the deleted article; I can do that. Just e-mail me (I have my e-mail address displayed on my user page, though in a slightly obfuscated form), and I'll send it back to you. Regards, Mike Rosoft 09:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)