User talk:Gurjotsachdeva

Question from Gurjotsachdeva (05:00, 20 June 2024)

Hi, thank you for extending your support. I wish to create a Wikipedia page - how can I go about it? Appreciate your guidance. Thank you. --Gurjotsachdeva (talk) 05:00, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia, Gurjotsachdeva. One of the things I have learned during my time on Wikipedia is that pretty much any question I have has already been answered. The trick is how to find that answer. The search function on Wikipedia is pretty good (not perfect, but pretty good). So my first approach to looking for an answer is to put the keywords from my question into the search box, but putting "WP:" first. So your question is - how to I create a page? So, if I put WP: how do I create a page, into the search box I get Wikipedia:How to create a page. If I put WP: creating a page, into the search box I get Help:Your first article. Both provide useful information with links to Wikipedia:Article wizard and Wikipedia:Articles for creation.

My suggestion for you is to edit a few existing articles before attempting to create your own article. You will learn a lot from doing that, and you will benefit the project. You will make mistakes, everyone does, and people will point them out to you (or simply revert your edits). Be patient. While anyone can edit Wikipedia, and it is fairly easy to do, it takes time to learn how to edit it successfully such that other editors respect your contributions and either leave them as they are, or build constructively on them.

I suggest you start by reading through some articles that interest you, and do some simple copy-editing (see Wikipedia:Basic copyediting), correcting spelling and grammar mistakes, and helping improve the flow of the language. You could find articles which need copyediting at Category:All articles needing copy edit. Once you have done that for a while, and feel comfortable, you can move on to adding sources (citing a reliable book or text, or linking to a reliable website - see Help:Referencing for beginners, and for more advanced information see Wikipedia:Citing sources). You can find a big list of articles that need sources added at Category:All articles with unsourced statements. Adding sources is important, and you would find it difficult to get an article accepted on Wikipedia these days without proper sourcing, so it's useful to learn how to do it.

That's plenty for you to read. You don't need to read it all at once; though it is useful to have the links so you can refer to the information now and again. If you are not sure you have the time to learn how to write an article, you could request one be written at Wikipedia:Requested articles.

Good luck! SilkTork (talk) 08:23, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]