User talk:Gothic Serenity

Hello, Gothic Serenity! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Terra 17:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Re: Questions

Hi there. I notice you've been given one of the welcome templates, which will help answer some things, but here are some answers to target your actual questions:

• Requests for page protection and unprotection go to WP:RFPP. This includes full protection, semi-protection, creation protection (aka "salting") and move-protection, which are explained somewhere on that page (or one linked to it).
• The answer to "How do I create a new page?" is to go to a page that doesn't exist (either by following a red link - The weather in London is an example except that it's protected from creation - or by searching for a non-existant title), and clicking on "edit this page" up the top. However, the question that people often fail to ask is "How do I create a new page that won't get deleted?" The answer to that lies in the following canned message:

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation.

• Finally, there are lots of places you can go to for help - the New contributors' help page, which you've already found, the Help desk, which serves a similar function but tends to have more traffic (so there are more people to answer your question, but also possibly more questions that might bury yours). You can also use the {{helpme}} template - just edit this page with {{helpme}} and a question, and someone should be along to try to answer it soon. Hope that helps, Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 23:20, 25 June 2008 (UTC)