User talk:RobertShaw

Welcome
Hello, RobertShaw. Welcome to Wikipedia. I am Mlpearc a volunteer with the Account Creation Team and I received your account request. You are welcome to leave questions, comments on my talk page at anytime here. Here is some useful information to get you started. Mlpearc  powwow  20:30, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

What Wikipedia is and isn't
Hi. Welcome, again. I have cleared out this rather confused page so as to make a fresh start. I am not sure that you have understood what Wikipedia is: a collaborative project to build an encyclopedia. That means there is a rather long list of What Wikipedia is not; in particular, it is not a social-networking site like Myspace or Facebook where people write about themselves. Subjects for Wikipedia articles have to be notable, which means that they have already been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources; for instance, see WP:ENTERTAINER for what an actor needs to have achieved before having an article.

Even if they are notable, people are strongly discouraged from writing about themselves, for reasons explained at Autobiography. However, Wikipedia users, the volunteers who are here to build a computer, each have a user page: yours is at User:RobertStephens. User pages are there for users to say something about themselves, if they choose, to help communication within the project. See WP:User pages for more detail, and in particular WP:UPNOT for what you should not put on your user page - basically, substantial content unrelated to Wikipedia and your contributions here.

If what you wanted to was to write about yourself, then Wikipedia is not the right place: you need a social-networking site like Myspace or Facebook; but if you would like to help with the encyclopedia project, you are very welcome, and the links in the Welcome message above will tell you more about it. The WP:Five pillars, the WP:Welcome page and WP:Your first article are good places to start. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:07, 20 August 2011 (UTC)