User talk:PowerAnode

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Daily Mile (March 29)
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SwisterTwister  talk  23:03, 29 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I see that at Draft talk:The Daily Mile you wrote "I have taken information relating to The Daily Mile from a number of sources", and indeed I have found more than one source which contains verbatim content you posted to the draft. Unfortunately, we cannot keep such content in publicly available pages, even temporarily to be edited. Wikipedia's licensing terms give permission for anyone in the world to re-use all content, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. Granting such a re-use license to content owned by other people who have not licensed it under similar terms would not be acceptable.


 * I can understand that it must be frustrating to see your first contribution to Wikipedia deleted almost immediately after you posted it. You are welcome to write a new draft on the same subject, in your own words rather than using sentences copied and pasted from elsewhere, but you should also be aware that if the draft is written in a way which appears to be intended to promote, publicise, or advertise its subject then it is unlikely to be accepted.


 * 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. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 08:51, 30 March 2017 (UTC)