Knowheretorun
Welcome
editWelcome!
Hello, Knowheretorun, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome!
~Richmond96 t • c 05:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your post about 2012.
This article is currently "protected", which is normally a temporary measure used to provide a cooling-off period when an article is getting a rash of vandalism or when editors are fighting over it excessively. (See Wikipedia:Protection policy.) It's apparently been protected since 19 Nov 2008, which seems excessive to me. I posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rational Skepticism asking somebody to de-protect it.
If this doesn't happen very soon I'll ask an administrator to do this, and unless there's some good reason for it to stay protected, all users should should be able to edit it then. (If there is some continuing problem with that article, it may be re-protected as necessary, however, as I say, this is normally supposed to be temporary.)
Also, AFAIK, a named account such as User:Knowheretorun (You :-) ) should be able to edit articles even while they're protected, but non-named ISP editors are blocked. If you're not already familiar with Wikipedia's standards for cites and reliable sources, you want to read those (WP:MOS) -- otherwise people are going to fairly quickly delete your edits anyway.
Also, when you post to Talk pages, it's good form to type four tildes ( ~~~~ ) after your post. This automatically signs your account name or ISP and gives a time signature, making it much easier to see who's saying what when.
-- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 22:21, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, your source http://nowheretorun.podomatic.com/entry/2008-11-01T10_42_05-07_00 is not, as far as I can tell, a "reliable source" for Wikipedia purposes. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources, especially Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources. Please note that this isn't my policy, it's Wikipedia's policy. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 22:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
- Hmm. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't enough at 2012#2012_Geophysical_and_Cosmological_speculations to justify spinning that off as a separate article (assuming that we can cite everything, clean up the {{who}} tags, etc. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 06:04, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- Im sure there will be more, but i think I hit the major ones. Im done editing them for now.. I like this though, I have a lot of things to share, i hope I can learn to get better at this.Knowheretorun (talk) 06:06, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- Just FYI, in all likelihood you'll do a couple things while you're getting started that won't be "the right Wikipedia way" and people will criticize you about it (Some might even be rude). Don't worry if that happens - it happens to everybody. Just take a look at whatever policy or guideline they're talking about. ( Help:Contents/Policies and guidelines, Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes ). If you just ask for advice anywhere, most people will be happy to help. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 13:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)