User talk:Rockingchick22

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All of this information can be daunting, but if you have a question and can't find the answer, you can always ask me on my talk page or go to Where to ask a question. One last thing: please sign your name when leaving messages for others on article and user talk pages using (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. I hope you enjoy editing! --Malthusian (talk) 23:19, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Charlotte Flight
Re: "Charlotte flight"&mdash;Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Postdlf 20:49, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place hangon on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Nacon Kantari  e |t||c|m 21:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Response to help desk
Hi Rockingchick. Sorry your article was deleted, but it sounds like you were writing a biography of a non-notable person. We can't generally let people write articles about people they know or knew personally because it violates our policies of having everything verified by reliable sources (if you write about someone the wider world hasn't heard of we have no way of making sure what you wrote is true) and writing from a neutral point of view (you can't be neutral about someone you know personally). There are more specific guidelines as to who's considered notable at WP:BIO.

If you'd like some ideas for a good first article, you can try the Your first article (which is more a list of "don't"s) and the Requested articles pages. The community portal also has lots of other ways in which people can contribute to Wikipedia apart from writing new articles.

Hope this won't put you off editing Wikipedia, it can be quite hard to get stuck in at first, but don't worry - although sometimes it seems otherwise, people are always happy to put your mistakes right as long as you don't make a habit of repeating them. --Malthusian (talk) 23:19, 16 February 2006 (UTC)