LibrarianAnnie

Welcome!

Hello, LibrarianAnnie, 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 and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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 {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! SFK2 (talk) 00:19, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Hey you're a good writer

Been noticing your contributions. Impressed. And are you really a librarian? How about creating your user page? Just click here and write something.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:03, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Impressive credentials you have. Welcome to Wikipedia!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:48, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, Tom! I sure appreciate your warm welcome as I learn to navigate my way through everything here! You have made a lot of impressive contributions! LibrarianAnnie (talk) 21:10, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

So how are you finding Wikipedia?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:25, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

All is going well; thank you, Tom! I hope all is going well for you too! LibrarianAnnie (talk) 02:25, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm primarily a revamper. I get to learn new stuff that way. I like to take an article with daily pageview counts in the hundreds which has few references and much junk, research it online, rewrite it, and post it, and then try to get the pageview counts to double. One of my best revamps is Equal opportunity. Sometimes I come across a subject which needs an article, and I'll write that too. One of my best new articles is Ice bath which I wrote from scratch, and now gets several hundred pageviews a day (and might even keep some overzealous athlete from getting killed in one -- my personal POV is they're dangerous.) I think I'm a competent writer but not much more than that so it helps me when better writers come along and get the quality level higher. Sometimes battles will break out about content and if you contribute here a while, it will happen; what's important is to distance yourself and not take it personally when this happens (if you run into difficulty, write something on my talk page). I've had several articles deleted, entirely -- and this was an eye-opening experience. The cool thing about Wikipedia is it teaches us to think neutrally, objectively. I'm not contributing much for the next few months until I finish a sci-fi novel I'm working on but I check my user page daily and can usually help out if needed.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 10:16, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

OER inquiry

Hi LibrarianAnnie, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:43, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)