Jaybiss
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editHello, Jaybiss, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
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We're so glad you're here! Rockpocket 07:08, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Your request
editHello Jaybiss. With regards to your comments on your user-page and on the Humanities help desk, I thought I would drop by as a Wikipedia administrator, and offer some guidance.
We appreciate your enthusiasm to contribute to Wikipedia, but I feel our mission is not compatible with your intent. Our goal is to be the world's most comprehensive tertiary source of information. It is not the appropriate venue to document or define something new, because for an article to exist here, it should be verifiable, by multiple reliable, secondary sources. We have a policy of not permitting original research, which your new photographic discipline would be at this time.
I would suggest that your submit your suggestion to some photographic journals, websites or magazines. If and when it gets accepted by the photographic community, then would be the time for us to have an article on it. Until that time, I would advise you don't attempt to create an article on it, since it will simply be rapidly deleted.
I'm sorry we can't accept your contributions on this subject, but perhaps you might consider contributing in other ways (for example, you might consider uploading some of your many thousands of photos to illustrate our articles. While they would have to be uploaded under a free license, you would retain credit and attribution, thereby spreading your new style to a wider audience). Rockpocket 07:08, 6 October 2008 (UTC)