User talk:Ranchoobiwan

May 2016

The article Rancho Obi-Wan has been deleted, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. There were three reasons for this, any one of which would have been sufficient grounds for deletion: the article was about an organisation, but did not provide evidence that the organisation is significant enough to be the topic of a Wikipedia article, it was promotional in character, and it was a copy of content from another web site, infringing copyright.

My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make (which you will, because we all do) will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:51, 26 May 2016 (UTC)