Tx65

Hello, Tx65, 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:

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Survival tips

Now that you've read all the articles listed above, I'm one of the editors who follows 6.5 mm Grendel and I see that you've done a number of edits on 6.5 mm Grendel#Timeline. These appear to demonstrate a high level of knowledge on the subject and are very well written. And from one of your editing comments I take it you were yourself involved in the development process of the cartridge. Kudos! Its a very good cartridge.

Please don't feel bitten by the discussion to follow. I'm trying to point you toward some important rules to show how to keep the deletionists from just erasing your edits. Here we go. Wikipedia normally allows only material which can be verified using specific references from a second party source. The material won't be allowed if it is original research or unless sources are cited in the article.

For instance suppose Orville Wright's grand niece decided to edit Wright Flyer to add information about the fabric which her grandmother gave the brothers for the project, or the type thread used. She couldn't just recollect family history but would have to have some publicly available second party publication to verify her assertions. Now the publication could be something written by one of the family, as long as it was either published elsewhere or the property of the museum, but if it was from her own archive that would still make it original research. Then there is another sticking point. Could she quote the material itself without giving credit? Well no. See Wikipedia:Plagiarism for more details.

This really gets sticky for controversial articles. But for others much of the time what will happen is that someone will tag the article like I did at 6.5 mm Grendel#Timeline.

Now how to do the citations themselves? Some good hints are found at Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Citation templates. Good luck and have fun!Trilobitealive (talk) 01:06, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I looked at the reference you linked to 6.5 mm Grendel. Impressive level of expertise on the article subject! I deleted the section tagging and put a shortcut into that same reference so that it can be easily added in other places if needed. You can look at the article history to see the changes. Have fun editing. Wikipedia needs people with your deep knowledge of such highly technical subjects.Trilobitealive (talk) 06:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination of .30 Walker for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article .30 Walker is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.30 Walker until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hog Farm _Bacon 01:56, 4 September 2020 (UTC)