User talk:Peter Milen

The page User:Peter Milen/sandbox does not look like a draft article for the encyclopaedia; it looks much more like a personal essay or the first draft of a research paper. "Media Violence: Does it Cause Aggression?" may well be a significant question, but it seems unlikely that there is the sort of coverage of it as a concept in itself, as opposed to a question to consider, to satisfy Wikipedia's inclusion standards. 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 (which you will, because we all do) 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. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:29, 19 October 2015 (UTC)