User talk:Jonearles

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

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[edit] Wikipedia is meant to be informative

Noticing two of your recent edits ([1] and [2]) and their corresponding edit summaries, I think you need to know a bit more about what Wikipedia is.

Firstly, Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. This means that their is no conventional limit to how big Wikipedia can get. Or in other words, you can edit till you drop!!!

Secondly, a short post with a red link is better than nothing and the red link may turn blue one day.

Finally, please take this into account, but don't just add nonsense (WP:NOT#IINFO and WP:NOT#BLOG)
— ChrisDHDR ^{FøřůM • €D!†$} 13:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

But if this article lists every person who goes missing it is not informative at all. Many of the entries I deleted don't have sources, and the others are probably not important. Millions of people go missing every year, and we can probably find local news sources for many of them, but if all of that information is included with this list it will be impossible to find cases of missing person that are really notable. See WP:BIO#Lists_of_people Jonearles 00:43, 10 June 2007 (UTC)