User talk:Twedle

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Hello Twedle! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Smee 20:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Wikipedia is not • Deletion policy The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article Perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Smee 20:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Most of WP is not notable?

Do you really believe this? I certainly don't. I'm sure that there are, as you suggest, "other crap" type articles out there whose topics are not the subject of reliable sources. In many cases, those should probably be deleted. However, just looking at my watch list, I think that at least a majority of the article topics there are the subject of entire books. The ones that are not are have certainly been the subject of newspaper and magazine articles. Even classes of information that I thought could be suspect by this guideline, like individual episodes of Seinfeld, are probably the subject of reviews published in magazines and newspapers and whatnot. Also note that WP:NEO establishes a different, more stringent standard for a neologism to get its own WP article than WP:N and other relevant policies and guidelines may establish for a different sort of article topic. Croctotheface 13:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)