Saracates

Welcome!

Hello, Saracates! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 19:53, 2 June 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Some of the most helpful links, you'll find under "Policies and Guidelines" above. Now... as for creating an article, here's some additional tips that may help:

• Always make a clear claim of notability in the article. If you don't, it's unlikely that others may be able to figure out why the person/group/company/subject is notable - and the article may end up being deleted (as I guess you've noticed) :-(
• Place an {{underconstruction}} tag (type it exactly like that at the very top of the article) on the article so people know you are actively working on it - but then, remember to actively working on it (at least until it no longer meets any deletion criteria). Of course, real life intrudes, and that's to be expected. But don't start an article in article space if you're going to be away for 3 or 5 days (or more) and know you can't come back every couple days to bring it to non-deletable status.
• Important Tip if working on an article will take a lot of time: You can create the article in your userspace... simply go to your USER page, and then add a slash and article name after the URL in your browser bar (use _ for spaces)... this new page will ask you if you want to create a page... so, for instance, you could have created the FSB page in your userspace at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Saracates/Future_Steel_Buildings - and when you are suitably finished, you could ask someone to move it into article space for you.
• Give a good read over notability and reliable sources above (and a decent read-through of the rest).

Let me know if you have any questions. Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | ^TK/_CN 20:04, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Two final things...

1. Don't delete the Speedy Deletion Tag (as the bot noted above)... I'll take care of that once the article no longer meets the criteria.
2. Any article already deleted can be "un-deleted" and moved into your userspace so you can improve them there and then request they get moved back into article space. Let me know if you have any that need that done. (and in the event the FSB article gets deleted before it's up to standards, we can do the same thing with that).

ROBERTMFROMLI | ^TK/_CN 20:07, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Robert, thank you so much for your help! I am in the process of working on my second Wikipedia page for the First Nations Infrastructure Funding page over the next week, but it worries me that some users are going to undo all my hard work by deleting my articles. I just need some time to improve my articles, and I'm trying as quickly as I can to get more sources, but obviously I can't do this if my articles are under the threat of constant deletion. Is there any way to ensure the safety of my articles while I work to improve them? Saracates (talk) 20:18, 2 June 2011 (UTC)Saracates

Hi again, I've created a page in your userspace here: [1]. I'd start it there, and then when you think it's ready for mainspace, either let me know, or find an admin who can move it for you. Best, ROBERTMFROMLI | ^TK/_CN 22:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Welcome anew, Sara - if I can ever help with anything, my Talk page is there -> Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 23:46, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks you! I think I'm finally settling down and getting the hang of what to do/what not to do. I will be sure to seek your assistance in the future. The next time we interact, it'll occur in a much more positive capacity. :) Saracates (talk) 23:52, 4 June 2011 (UTC)Saracates

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