User talk:Ioanaelbada
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A few pieces of information and advice relating to your editing
[edit]- A Wikipedia category page should not contain article-like text. Instead, it shows links to pages where the category is listed. Please don't edit categories until you have enough experience of editing Wikipedia to understand how they work.
- It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account.
- Even without the copyright problem, the drafts you have created would not be suitable as Wikipedia articles for a number of reasons, including the following: the page was written as a list of achievements, like a CV or résumé, rather than as a prose article; it was somewhat promotional in tone; it did not cite references to reliable sources, as is needed both for verification of content and as evidence of notability.
- Your posting several copies of the same page could be seen as attempting to spam content on Wikipedia. If that was not your intention then you should be careful to avoid giving such a misleading impression, as doing so could lead to being blocked from editing by an administrator.
- 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 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. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:38, 17 June 2019 (UTC)