User talk:King Cobb
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[edit] Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:
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JohnCD (talk) 18:07, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Please stop removing the category at the article you created. It is necessary to categorize articles. Oore (talk) 18:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] May 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. However, please know that editors do not own articles and should respect the work of their fellow contributors on Leonidas (teacher). If you create or edit an article, know that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Oore (talk) 20:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] How Wikipedia works
This is a rather longer reply to the note you left on Talk:Leonidas (teacher). My reply there was rather short, but your note was rather rude. However, you're new, so I will try to explain what Wikipedia is about. It's a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedia. If you click the "history" tab on any article, you will usually see that many editors have contributed to it. The whole idea is that anybody who has something useful can contribute can do so anywhere; but the other side of that is that his contribution, in turn, may be changed by somebody else.
That's why, at the bottom of the edit page you use to make a contribution, it says "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it", and why no editor owns any article, however much he contributed to it - see WP:OWN.
You found a good subject where there was a gap in Wikipedia's cover - well done. With over 2,000,000 articles, that's not easy. But once you've put an article in, other people will look at it, and if they can see a way to improve it, they will. That's how Wikipedia grows.
Another aspect of Wikipedia's collaborative nature is that editors have to get on together, and that doesn't happen so easily if they are rude to each other. When you join a new community, as you have just joined the Wikipedia community, it's sensible to watch and learn and see how experienced members do things, and not rush into wild accusations that just show you don't understand how things work. Read WP:CIVIL and WP:AGF and think about them, and you'll get on better. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
