User talk:Mauler2099

October 2019
Hello, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. I hope you have a successful time here. However, there are, unfortunately, problems with your first contribution. It would not have been acceptable as an article for several reasons, such as that it read like promotion for its subject, whereas Wikipedia content must be written from a neutral point of view. However, the most important problem was copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. On this occasion the text you posted has been published on a web site which bears a copyright notice saying "all rights reserved", so there is absolutely no question of its being acceptable to post it to Wikipedia.

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. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 22:28, 31 October 2019 (UTC)