User talk:Mathteacher69

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Welcome to WP
Saw the discussion at WP:WQA and wanted to give you a personal welcome and explanation. (Everything policy wise I'm going to say is on some WP:Something page but it can be had to navigate / figure out when you first get here.)

Wikipedia (WP) isn't the font of all human knowledge. Because it relies almost entirely on self-motivated volunteers doing their own thing (within the community framework) there is no way to independently assess the validity of information. So WP doesn't try. It relies on a proxy measure, the concept of "reliable sources" -- which has it's own WP thing, WP:RS, to determine suitability for inclusion. This has the good benefit of minimizing a lot of nonsense but has the unfortunate side effect of sometimes excluding good truthful stuff because there aren't reliable sources or no one is motivated enough to track them down.

What you ran into with your new article is volunteers trying to weed out the junk -- and there are lots of attempts to put junk on WP. It's not a reflection on you or the content you're adding, just a safeguard to keep WP in reasonably good shape. It appears your article has been sourced enough to stay for now. (It's possible someone will take another look in a few months and suggest it be deleted. That's just part of the normal growth and maintenance process of WP.)

I encourage to make further contributions. A good way to do that is, when building new articles, is to first make them in what we call "userspace." e.g. if you go to User:Mathteacher69/My New Article for example, you can create a new page and work on it there. As long as it is reasonably encyclopedia like and there's some evidence you're working on it -- there's no firm time limit I'm aware of -- it's most likely you'll be left alone. Then, when you have enough sources, you can move it to "article space" with sufficient references that it will probably stay around. (But sooner or later someone will improve your writing.)

This is describe formally in WP:CREATE. Happy editing! Gerardw (talk) 18:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Mathteacher69 (talk) 03:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)== You are awarded the Business and Economics Barnstar ==

Thank you. I am honored. And thank you for your help and advice. Best,Mathteacher69 (talk) 03:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Your userpage
Please take some time to create your userpage at User:Mathteacher69. Your userpage will let you tell other users about yourself. You can copy and paste parts of mine at User:Stillwaterising or anybody elses. It's best to leave off identifying information like real name. Guidelines are at WP:USER. - Stillwaterising (talk) 00:25, 2 April 2010 (UTC)