Hello Mwhiz, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like it here and decide to stay. I'm not really sure who you are, but we probably know each other. Anyway, here are some tips that will make things easier for you here on Wikipedia:
If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.
If, for some reason, you are unable to fix a problem yourself, feel free to ask someone else to do it. Wikipedia has a vibrant community of contributors who have a wide range of skills and specialties, and many of them would be glad to help. There are also the help pages for self-help and the village pump and IRC Channels, where you are more than welcome to ask for assistance. You should also feel free to ask me on my Talk page.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes(~~~~) produces your name and the current date. Please do not add this signature to encyclopedia articles you may edit, however, even if you have created them. Wikipedia articles are owned by the community, not by any one person. Your contribution is credited on aticles' history pages. Again, welcome! — WAvegetarian• (talk) 21:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled " Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 07:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
You recently removed a {{ verify}} tag from the Spirit section of the GHS article without actually verifying anything. The verification policy requires citing of reliable sources. Please do not remove maintenance notices from pages unless the required changes have been made. If you are uncertain whether the page requires further work, or if you disagree with the notice, please discuss these issues on the page's talk page before removing the notice from the page. These notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of a page. Thank you. — WAvegetarian• (talk) 19:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I understand that this is a big endeavor with a huge audience, etc. etc. I completely agree that content needs to have a source, but I think there are much more pressing issues on wikipedia than worrying about the citations for a school song. for example, there are many articles that claim to be scientifically accurate and are in fact complete bogus. cleaning up those articles is much more important than searching for these kinds of citations. in fact, if you look at the wikipedia rules you'll discover that purposefully promoting things on wikipedia is forbidden. I can easily argue that by neglecting to work on patently incorrect articles and instead, working on small additions to the article about the high school you graduated from, you are working against wiki rules. i'm not saying that things don't need to be sourced, just that there are other things vastly more urgent to do on wikipedia then surfing through and putting up a bunch of "citation needed" signs.
Hello Mwhiz, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like it here and decide to stay. I'm not really sure who you are, but we probably know each other. Anyway, here are some tips that will make things easier for you here on Wikipedia:
If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.
If, for some reason, you are unable to fix a problem yourself, feel free to ask someone else to do it. Wikipedia has a vibrant community of contributors who have a wide range of skills and specialties, and many of them would be glad to help. There are also the help pages for self-help and the village pump and IRC Channels, where you are more than welcome to ask for assistance. You should also feel free to ask me on my Talk page.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes(~~~~) produces your name and the current date. Please do not add this signature to encyclopedia articles you may edit, however, even if you have created them. Wikipedia articles are owned by the community, not by any one person. Your contribution is credited on aticles' history pages. Again, welcome! — WAvegetarian• (talk) 21:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled " Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 07:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
You recently removed a {{ verify}} tag from the Spirit section of the GHS article without actually verifying anything. The verification policy requires citing of reliable sources. Please do not remove maintenance notices from pages unless the required changes have been made. If you are uncertain whether the page requires further work, or if you disagree with the notice, please discuss these issues on the page's talk page before removing the notice from the page. These notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of a page. Thank you. — WAvegetarian• (talk) 19:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
I understand that this is a big endeavor with a huge audience, etc. etc. I completely agree that content needs to have a source, but I think there are much more pressing issues on wikipedia than worrying about the citations for a school song. for example, there are many articles that claim to be scientifically accurate and are in fact complete bogus. cleaning up those articles is much more important than searching for these kinds of citations. in fact, if you look at the wikipedia rules you'll discover that purposefully promoting things on wikipedia is forbidden. I can easily argue that by neglecting to work on patently incorrect articles and instead, working on small additions to the article about the high school you graduated from, you are working against wiki rules. i'm not saying that things don't need to be sourced, just that there are other things vastly more urgent to do on wikipedia then surfing through and putting up a bunch of "citation needed" signs.