User talk:TracyK

Welcome to the English Wikipedia!
 Hello TracyK, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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Your draft article, and advice on editing
Unfortunately, the draft article that you wrote has had to be deleted. This is because it was copied from another web site, making it a copyright infringement. The text that you posted appears at http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/tracyk/ and parts of it elsewhere. It is very rarely acceptable to post content you have copied from another place. Also, even if there had been no copyright problem, the page would have been unacceptable as a Wikipedia article, as it was entirely promotional, telling us in glowing terms how great she is, whereas a Wikipedia article needs to be written from a neutral point of view.

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) 12:02, 3 April 2014 (UTC)