User talk:Toddhgardner

November 2022
Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, very welcome to start making contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines if you are interested in doing so, but if your only interest is in writing a personal web page, then there are many web sites which provide that sort of service, but Wikipedia is not one of them. Also please note that promotional editing of any kind is not permitted by Wikipedia policy. That includes editing to promote or publicise your personal web site. JBW (talk) 16:06, 10 November 2022 (UTC)


 * You should address your user onboarding process then, because it invited me to make a page so I just typed some sample text to explore. Jumping on that is pretty hostile to new users. Toddhgardner (talk) 16:10, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "jumping on that", but what I did was inform you of a Wikipedia policy which you evidently didn't know about. Almost all of us, when we start editing, know little or nothing about Wikipedia policies, so many of us do things in perfectly good faith without knowing that they are contrary to policies; I did so when I started editing, and I don't blame anyone else for doing so. When I did make mistakes back in those days, sometimes other editors would help me by explaining policies and guidelines to me. I was grateful for that help. JBW (talk) 16:48, 10 November 2022 (UTC)