User talk:Pennymills1

February 2019
Hello, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. I hope you have a successful time here. Unfortunately, however, there are problems with the draft you have created, and I thought it best to explain to you what they are.
 * The most important problem is that the content of the page was all or mostly copied from another web site. It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being 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.
 * Secondly, the content of the page is written in a way which is unambiguously designed to promote its subject. A Wikipedia article needs to be written from a neutral point of view, and promotional editing is not permitted by Wikipedia policy. In fact that is another reason why copying from another web site is rarely acceptable: the content of an organisation's own web site is almost always written in terms intended to give readers a good impression of the organisation.

If the promotional nature of the draft were the only problem, then I would decline the draft for now, but advise you to edit it to make it less promotional. However, copyright-infringing content is not permitted to stay in place, so I shall have to delete the draft. You are perfectly free to create a new draft on the same subject, but if so please make sure that it is entirely written in your own words, and that it sticks to neutral reporting, rather than reading as though it is intended to give the reader the impression that the organisation is praiseworthy or noble (no matter how strongly you think that it deserves to have that kind of write up).

Unfortunately, creating new Wikipedia articles is full of pitfalls for new editors. 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. That advice may not appeal to you if you are only here to write about "Surviving Economic Abuse", and have no interest in doing other editing, but if you do have any interest in contributing in other ways then I suggest taking it seriously.

If you have a personal connection to the organisation you have written about, then you should read the guideline on conflict of interest before doing any more editing about it.

I am sorry that this is a rather negative start to your experience as a Wikipedia editor, and I hope it won't put you off continuing to edit. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:54, 11 February 2019 (UTC)