User talk:Projectreclamation

June 2021
Hello, and welcome to contributing to Wikipedia. I hope you will have a successful time here. However, unfortunately the draft article you created was unsuitable for Wikipedia, and has been deleted. There were two reasons for that.
 * 1) The text was unmistakably promotional, clearly written to impress readers with how noble and praiseworthy the person it was written about was, whereas Wikipedia policy requires all content to be written from a neutral point of view.
 * 2) 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.

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) 16:02, 11 June 2021 (UTC)