Hi Jerry: And thanks for your note -- it's quite all right to leave me a note in the location where you left it, that's the place it should have gone. I hope to be patient with a genuine newcomer as well -- that's an important principle around here, usually expressed as "don't bite the newbies".
Essentially, your article was deleted because it didn't meet a couple of policy requirements that are quite basic to how Wikipedia works (the links in this paragraph will take you to more complete descriptions of those policies). The subjects of articles must be notable. Your article certainly asserted that you were a film editor, but it didn't assert that you were a notable film editor. Notability, in Wikipedia terms, is found by referring to reliable sources of expert opinion; what other experts have said about your film editing. So, for instance, if you have been the subject of an article in "Film Editor Magazine", or won an Academy Award for film editing, those would be reliable sources that would demonstrate your notability. If you can provide those reliable sources, they should go into the article and they should be expressed in such a way that they are verifiable. So, for instance, "there was an article in a magazine about me" isn't sufficient -- it needs to say, "I was the subject of the cover article in "Film Editor Monthly" in the September, 2007 issue, on pages 31-36."
There's another policy that you should know about that will affect how your article is considered, and that's our conflict of interest policy. It's strongly discouraged to write an article about yourself and your accomplishments; in a general sense, if you are sufficiently notable to be the subject of a Wikipedia article, someone else will probably be lining up to write it. We try not to do advertising for companies or individuals. I'm not saying you did anything wrong -- it's very common to want to see an article about yourself in Wikipedia -- it's just discouraged to do it yourself, is all.
I hope this helps you understand what happened, and give you an idea of how you might want to proceed from here. After I sign off this note with four tildes (four of ~ these symbols) I'm going to leave you a standard "welcome" message that will give you access to a lot of useful basic information. You might also look up Wikipedia:Why was my article deleted?, which will tell you many of the same things I've laid out above. And if you have any further questions or problems, I hope you will feel not "bitten" but that I'm ready to help you further, because I am! Just click on the word "talk" after my signature and you will go directly to the right place to leave me a note -- and feel free to do that. Accounting4Taste:talk 00:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
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