User talk:Superluckydi

Creating a 'comping' page
Hello! Quick question. I would like there to be another Wikipedia entry on 'Comping' - that is, the hobby of entering competitions (usually used in the UK or Australia) rather than the jazz term!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comping

Mainly because it's a huge hobby here in the UK and I'd like it to appear on Facebook as a tag/interest for groups.

I'm not sure I'm the person to create it, but is that the only option?

Thanks!

Superluckydi (talk) 11:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * , I'm not sure that there really can be more added (or needed) on top of the Wiktionary article. However, if you feel that a great deal can be written on the subject, I would suggest using the Article Wizard to write up a draft. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, the IRC channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 11:35, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Primefac posted that message while I was drafting the following answer to your request, but since I have written it, you may as have my comments too.
 * The fact that you would like like it to "appear on Facebook as a tag/interest for groups" is absolutely not a good reason for creating a Wikipedia article about it. The main criteria for inclusion of an article in Wikipedia is given in the notability guidelines, and you need to look at those before considering writing an article. If the subject does satisfy those guidelines, that will be fine, but if it doesn't then any time and effort put into writing an article about it is likely to be wasted, as the article is likely to just be deleted. I am also giving you, below, a "welcome" message which includes links to various other guidelines, policies, and so on. I'm afraid that in my opinion Wikipedia has far too many of these guidelines and policies, and they can be bewildering to a new editor, and I don't recommend trying to read and absorb all of them before doing any editing, but do have a quick look at any of them that look as though they may be helpful to you, and yo can, of course, always come back to them when you need more information. 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 (which you will, because we all do) 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) 11:45, 27 January 2015 (UTC)