Apathetizer

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Apathetizer, good luck, and have fun. PamD 05:48, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Stubs

Welcome to Wikipedia.

Please take care not to waste other editors' time by adding {{stub}}, in the wrong place (it goes at the end), to an article like Nyctemera giloloensis which already has a specific stub tag. Thanks. PamD 05:48, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Hey thanks, I'm new to editing Wikipedia and still have a good amount to learn. I've poured a good few hours into reading Wikipedia's policy guidelines as well as some related essays, but I'm no expert on this stuff so I definitely appreciate your feedback. --Apathetizer (talk) 00:29, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

There"s a lot to learn about editing but it's an interesting journey. The list of what order things go in an article is at WP:ORDER. Happy Editing! PamD 05:23, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

An extended welcome

Hi Apathetizer. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 22:38, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Hey thanks, that's some good advice and I'll keep it in mind going forward. --Apathetizer (talk) 00:47, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Your Files for Upload request: Barack Obama and John Tefft in 2014

Hello, and thank you for your request at Files for upload! Unfortunately, your request has been declined. The reason is shown on the main Files for upload page. The request will be archived shortly; if you cannot find it on that page, it will probably be at this month's archive. Regards, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 21:55, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Your draft submission

I hope you will put in your views for the discussion of your draft submission of draft:Allen Estrin. DougHill (talk) 19:14, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Theories of humor

Saw your comments. I've seen similar reporting of individual researcher's theories before. In one case it appeared to be a PhD candidate frantically attempting to bolster his case before his unsuccessful defense. Meters (talk) 00:18, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Interesting, I'm kinda curious now. What was that particular incident specifically about? --Apathetizer (talk) 00:41, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

See Cdg1072's user page and contributions. Meters (talk) 03:21, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

External links inline

Regarding your edit comment: the guideline you're looking for is the first paragraph of Wikipedia:External links. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:38, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah thank you. I thought it'd be buried deeper so I must've skipped right over that! Apathetizer (talk) 14:17, 24 April 2020 (UTC)