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Welcome!

Hello, Jimbo, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the articles you created may not meet Wikipedia's content policies. In short, to be included on Wikipedia, the topic of an article must be notable and have been covered by published reliable and independent sources.

Please read Your first article for an overview of the article creation process. The Article Wizard is available to help you create an article for review. Note that articles are reviewed by volunteers and that it can take some time. If you'd like someone else to create an article, see Requested articles. If you are stuck, come to the Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can help you through the processes.

New to Wikipedia? Please consider taking a look at our introductory tutorial or the page on contributing to Wikipedia. Below are a few other good pages about article creation.

Article development
Standard layout
Lead section
The perfect article
Task Center – for contributing to other articles. Writing a new article is tough, so getting experience elsewhere is useful.

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