My work so far has primarily been in the visual arts, but I am very interested in writing more about Human Rights and History. Thanks so much to the many who have helped me along the way, most notably and consistently Sitush, Ipigott, and Modernist! I wouldn't have come nearly as far without your direction and support. Namaste.
Projects
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Visual Arts
editFrank Weston Benson
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and a related article
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Vincent van Gogh
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Netherlands
Paris
Arles
Saint Remy
Auvers
Multiple locations
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Raphael
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Taos artists and art colony
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Andrew, Jamie and Caroline Wyeth
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Others: Dali, Bosch
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History: Biographies, other
editColonial America
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Colonial America |
Colorado
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Colorado
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Early, legendary history
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Early, legendary history |
Welsh \ English
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Other
editHuman rights: legislation & visual arts
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Music
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Great reference material
editWelcome
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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:
The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Sitush (talk) 06:58, 7 February 2011 (UTC) |
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Stay polite and reasonable, and if you mess up, let the other person know you're a new editor, so they understand it's not deliberate. Avoid battles and serial reversions or you'll get a block: see WP:3RR. Leave it for a bit and work on something else instead.
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It is also a very good idea to study existing articles to see how they are written, the tone used, the headings and references etc, but make sure you look at one that's done well. The highest standard is a featured article: check some out.
It's best to get experience before you do this. However, the first thing is to make sure the subject is notable. This means that it has to be written about in existing sources (see "Content" above). To be on the safe side, prepare it in a user sub-page (aka sandbox), where it will be safe, and get an experienced editor to check it out before uploading it to the main encyclopedia (aka article space).
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If you want your edits to last and your articles to be kept, the key is to reference them. You can put the guide below on your user or talk page by pasting:
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Did You Know (DYK) and Recognition
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