Ingaread
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editHello, Ingaread, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Introducing myself
editHi Ingaread. I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment. If there's anything I can do to help with your assignment (or, for that matter, any other aspect of Wikipedia) please feel free to drop me a note. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:37, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ingaread. I saw that you just listed] the Kombucha article as something you want to work on as a student. That article is going through a very ugly WP:BATTLEGROUND period right now, with discretionary sanctions at play (you don't want to know) and several admins paying attention to it. For what it's worth I recommend you turn away from that article and work on something else. Ian (Wiki Ed) you may want to see what you can do to prevent a student from walking into a firestorm here. Jytdog (talk) 19:35, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Jytdog's advice is very good. It's a good idea to stay away from articles where editors are locked in an intractable argument. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:10, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
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editThank you for your edit to Kombucha. It was a good edit and supported by RS. Please do not be discouraged or bullied away from GF editing. I will be happy to help you if you have any questions. Atsme📞📧 20:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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University of British Columbia
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Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:55, 24 June 2015 (UTC)