User talk:Shihaki

Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hey there, Shihaki, and welcome to our great encyclopedia, which currently has more than 1,879,706 articles! Even with this large number, all of your contributions are important (including the small ones), and I hope you like the place and decide to stay! Here's a few starting tips for you:


 * You might want to check out the welcome page.
 * Then you can have a look at our guidelines.
 * After that, you can see here for a cheatsheet on editing pages (for a bigger list, see here).

After reading all this (or even just glimpsing at it), I can understand that you might feel apprehensive about editing and contributing articles, for fear of making a mistake. But don't worry too much about mistakes; after all, you're new. Instead, everyone here encourages you to be bold! If you need help with anything, feel free to [ leave me a message], or you can put  on your talk page, and someone will show up shortly to give you a hand.

One last thing: when leaving a message on someone's talk page, don't forget to put four "tildes" (~) to automatically sign your name.

Happy Editing! -- P.B. Pilhet  22:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Your Question
Sure, you can read this page for info about creating new pages. I also advise you to read our notability policies, so that you don't accidentally create an article which shouldn't be here (ex., an article about yourself is not allowed, as you're probably not notable enough to be in an encyclopedia). Out of interest, what article do you want to create? Happy editing! -- P.B. Pilhet  22:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

P.S. -- Don't forget to put four "tildes" (~) to automatically sign your name when you post messages on talk pages. -- 22:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)


 * A new style of martial arts? Did you yourself create this new style? (or perhaps you and your friends?)  If so, the article you create will probably be deleted for non-notability.  All articles on Wikipedia must be notable. To be notable, they must usually be "referenced" by major third-party sources.  For example, the Boston Red Sox are notable because they are "referenced" by many prominent newspapers, TV shows, and web sites.  However, if I were to start a Little League team called the "Whittier Wombats", or whatever, they wouldn't be notable because only I and a handful of other people would know about them.  Just because you own the rights to something (I assume here you mean a copyright or trademark), that doesn't mean it can go on Wikipedia.  I recommend that you read what Wikipedia is not, just to make sure you don't go through all the work of creating an article, and then having it deleted.


 * As for replying to messages, this is unfortunately the only way to do it :-) Happy editing! --  P.B. Pilhet  00:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Another P.S. -- Articles don't have to be approved before they are created, but once they're created, they're subject to deletion if they don't meet our notability guidelines. -- 00:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Personally, based on what I know of Wikipedia's notability system, I don't think your martial arts style should have its own article. This is because of several reasons:


 * If you have to come up with a name for it, then that means it probably won't be referenced enough for it to be considered notable. No article should have to have its name "made up" by an editor for it to be included on Wikipedia; if it doesn't have a name already, then it just won't work.
 * There's probably many, many different kinds of martial arts styles that don't have articles here on Wikipedia and which aren't specifically named (please correct me if I'm wrong, of course); in the same way, there are probably many different combinations of a lot of things: films, foods, etc., which wouldn't be fit to be included on Wikipedia. Here's an example:  Take the Caesar salad.  There's many, many different ways to make it, but all of those ways don't each have their own article here.  Instead, then main article on Caesar salad says that there's "many different varieties," and that phrase is all that's needed.


 * So, in light of all this, I strongly recommend that you not create your article. Instead, create something which will be more clear cut as to whether or not it will be acceptable.  Happy editing! --  P.B. Pilhet  17:47, 12 July 2007 (UTC)