User talk:Margelennon

Welcome

Hello Margelennon and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

Getting Started First steps • FAQ Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting help Community Portal • Help desk • Village Pump Where to ask questions or make comments • Request administrator attention Place {{helpme}} on your talk page and a small message explaining the problem The Commmunity Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists		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 • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability 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 User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Click here to reply to this message.

ukexpat (talk) 21:03, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New article question

Thanks for the message on my talk page. Whether you want to edit existing articles or create new articles, you have to follow applicable policies and guidelines, as I listed in answer to your question on Wikipedia:New contributors' help page. The overriding question is whether your business is notable as described in WP:CORP. If it is not, or notability cannot be verified by reliable sources, then the article will be deleted - not every business is notable enough per WP standards to deserve its own article and WP is not a directory or advertising medium. In addition, because it is your business, you have a massive conflict of interest and are advised against creating such an article - if it is notable, someone will write an article about it sooner or later. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 21:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, you don't have to demonstrate your credibility in order to create an article. New editors are advised to start off editing other article just to get the hang of how things work round here. I have set up a user sandbox for you to experiment in: User:Margelennon/Sandbox. I suggest that you write the article there so that it won't be subject to deletion -- I will add it to my watchlist and stop by to help out. – ukexpat (talk) 21:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]