Kasaie

July 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Legality of cannabis, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Trinitresque (talk) 22:38, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello Trinitresque

I have no Idea how to use Talk or Edit sections! (yet), so....sorry.
Didn't mean to intrude or anything.
The "legitimate comment" I edited is indeed incorrect.
I live in Iran. Growth, sale, possession, and consumption of cannabis are illegal here and are punished by jail time the least.
In the map, Iran should be red.

Thank you

Hello Kasai. It's perfectly alright, there's no need to worry. Perhaps I should have pointed you to the page Help:Using talk pages. It contains lots of useful information about what "talk pages" are and how you use them. When you made your edit, you were not editing a Wikipedia article. Instead, what you were editing was the talk page of the article. A talk page is where people discuss a particular article. Each article, like Legality of cannabis, usually has a corresponding talk page, like Talk:Legality of cannabis. In addition, each Wikipedia user has their own talk page. In fact, this message you are reading now is on your own talk page, "User_talk:Kasaie". For articles like "Legality of cannabis", a talk page is where the users of Wikipedia discuss the contents of the article. It is for debating on what should be added or removed from the article, and for asking questions about the article. Users start a new discussion on a talk page by clicking on "New section" on the top right of a talk page and typing a title and a message. Other users can respond to a user by writing their message under that user's message. Every time a user writes a new message on a talk page, they should end it with "~~~~". When you click on "Save page" to save your message, the ~~~~ is transformed into your signature. This signature is used by other users to tell who wrote what message. When you made your edit, what you were editing was a message written by another user. This is not the right thing to do, because you made it seem as if that user said something different from what he or she really said. Instead, the right thing to do is write under the user's message telling them that they are wrong. Again, I definitely recommend that you read Help:Using talk pages to learn more about how to use talk pages. It has more information, such as how to indent comments, which is also important.

As for the issue of the map showing the wrong color for Iran, there are unfortunately many issues with that map. But one thing you should know is that I think the map is partially based on the information of this article: Legality of cannabis by country, which has specific information about Iran. If you believe the information of that article is wrong, you should say so in its talk page, Talk:Legality of cannabis by country.

I hope all of that makes sense. Wikipedia is a pretty complicated website, and I was confused by a lot of things when I started editing articles. But eventually, I understood things. If you have any questions, you can respond to my by writing below this message. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, Kasaie! Trinitresque (talk) 06:04, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

 Hello Trinitresque

I am very thankful for your help.
I appreciate your kindness.

Yours
Kasaie (talk) 19:51, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

@Trinitresque:

@Trinitresque: Please check out my comment and tell me what you think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Legality_of_cannabis_by_country#Iran Kasaie (talk) 20:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)