User talk:Sofeme Alfred

March 2018
Your recent editing at Bacama language added substantial content which was not about the Bacama language. Please don't try to take over an existing article to make it into an article about a different subject you would like to write about. Also, you provided no references to sources, which are essential, to indicate where your information comes from and to enable it to be verified. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, it is possible for people to post highly questionable content, or even outright lies, and so it is essential that content be verifiable, which requires sources to be cited. In addition, the text you posted, all i9n one unformatted block, was very difficult to read.

Although you posted the content into an existing article, you were in effect using that as a way to try to create what amounted to a new article on a different (although related) subject. 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) 11:13, 12 March 2018 (UTC)