User talk:Mastavicsta

September 2023
Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, very welcome to start making contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, if you are interested in doing so, but if you are interested in writing a personal web page, then there are many web sites which provide that sort of service, but Wikipedia is not one of them.JBW (talk) 10:41, 12 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Personal web pages?
 * Is this general information or are you saying this as an accusation against my profile info? Mastavicsta (talk) 10:54, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It's not an "accusation"; it's information to help you better understand how Wikipedia works. Your first edit was creating a page about yourself and your career. That may have been intended as a first step, to be followed by contributions to the encyclopaedia, or it may have been because you thought you would be able to use Wikipedia like a social media site, to just write about yourself. I had no way of knowing which; that is why the word "if" appears twice in my message: I catered for both possibilities. Almost all of us, when we start editing Wikipedia, know little or nothing about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and many of us (including myself) therefore start out doing things which are out of line with Wikipedia politics. Obviously nobody can be blamed for doing things that are contrary to policies and guidelines that they don't know about. Unfortunately in my opinion Wikipedia has far too many policies and guidelines, and most of them are far too long and complicated, which can make things confusing and intimidating for new editors, but it can be helpful to tell new editors about particular policies and guidelines if they are relevant to what they are doing. JBW (talk) 13:56, 12 September 2023 (UTC)