User talk:Wyncandy

Welcome new user

Hello, Wyncandy, I see you've opened an account and begun to make edits to the encyclopaedia. You are most welcome. Here's a standard welcome box with lots of useful links. I hope you get pleasure from editing and making Wikipedia an even better resource for the community. If you have any questions about the project don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page here User_talk:Lumos3.

Happy editing,

Lumos3 (talk) 22:18, 10 March 2011 (UTC) , Wikipedia Welcoming Committee.

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Withnail & I

Hi Wyncandy -- looking at my edit summary I see that I was decidedly scathing about your additions to the W&I page. Apologies for that -- it was a good faith edit and there was no need for me to be such a pompous arse about it. I hope you stick around and continue to edit -- and to enjoy editing -- Wikipedia. If you have any queries about Wikipedia and its policies & practices, by all means give me a shout and I'd be delighted to help if I can. Arthur Holland (talk) 20:15, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Guidance on notability

Hi Wyncandy,

Wikipedia has its own guidance for notability that may not be the same as your intuitive sense of what is notable. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia of general knowledge rather than an index of profiles of companies and people. Each article needs several independent reliable sources to show significant impact on the historical record. The guidance for organizations is given at WP:ORG and for biographies WP:BIO applies.

If the articles you are creating have reliable sources to support the criteria defined in that guidance then you may have a reason to keep the articles from being deleted which you are welcome to raise on the article talk page or on any linked deletion discussion. If you are associated with the organization, person or product the article is about then you must follow the conflict of interest guidelines and avoid editing the article yourself but you are free to suggest and discuss changes.

Rather than starting "live" articles, you can create a draft first which allows you to get your article properly sourced before risking speedy deletion - see Userspace draft and Userfication.

If you would like some independent help you can ask one of the noticeboards at WP:Requests or try chatting with other Wikipedians on #wikipedia-en-help ^connect.

Thanks, Fæ (talk) 07:46, 31 March 2011 (UTC)