AshdownAnne

Welcome

Hello, AshdownAnne, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Simplified Manual of Style
• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

A summary of some of the above links

In case you don't feel like reading all of of the above links right now, just keep the following in mind and you'll avoid most trouble on this site.

• Always cite a source for any new information. When adding this information to articles, use <ref>reference tags like this</ref>, containing the name of the source, the author, page number, publisher or web address (if applicable).
• We do not publish original thought nor original research.
• Wikipedia tries to be neutral in the sense that it is not so much concerned with the truth, as it with just summarizing reliable sources. This does not mean artificial balance between opposing positions if one has more evidence than the other, however.
• Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment). Google Books can be a good resource.
• Don't edit war. Except in cases of clear-cut vandalism, do not revert changes to a page more than 3 times within a 24 hour period.
• Assume good faith as much as reasonably possible, and then about half-way past the border for unreasonable possibility. Focus discussion on article content, not on other editors, unless it's saying something nice.
• Most importantly: Don't be afraid to make changes, be bold in your edits. Just be prepared to discuss the changes you make, and possibly have them reverted or modified.

In addition to the tutorial linked in TRPoD's welcome message, Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure is a tutorial that seems to produce competent and confident editors (based on what I've seen of users who have gone through it, I haven't done it myself since I've been here for far too long). I'll add your talk page to my watchlist (a common practice after someone leaves a message), so I can (hopefully) see if you've got any questions or if any other issues come up.

Ian.thomson (talk) 22:32, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, AshdownAnne. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by —Skyllfully ^(talk | _contribs) 02:39, 3 September 2015 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).