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Welcome!

Hello, Demion1987, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Getting Started
• Introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ruby Murray 20:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Garry-Owen Mckinnon - reply to your message

Any article about a living person which is still unsourced after seven days is deleted automatically, in order to protect people from having unverifiable information about them on display. I have undeleted this page and "userfied" it for you - moved it into a sub-page in your user space at User:Demion1987/Garry-Owen McKinnon where you can work on it.

I am sorry that Wikipedia does not do a very good job of explaining to new users what it is and is not for. Things I need to explain now are:

• Wikipedia is not a social-networking site like LinkedIn or Facebook for people to write about themselves. While not prohibited, that is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia:Autobiography. If you want to go ahead, you should also read the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.
• That means that you should not post an article directly. There is a green "Submit" link at the top of the draft page which will send it, when you are ready, to Wikipedia:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will review it and either accept it or give you feedback.
• Reliable sources are vital. The Wikipedia:Verifiability policy says that "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source." Your own personal knowledge is not enough, because a reader needs to be able to check what they read.
• Wikipedia is quite choosy about subjects for articles. The test for inclusion is called Wikipedia:Notability, and which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." For motor sports, the standard expected is at WP:Notability (sports)#Motorsports.
• There is good advice at WP:Your first article. JohnCD (talk) 20:34, 7 May 2014 (UTC)