Jump to content

User talk:InterestingTime

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Welcome!

[edit]

Hi InterestingTime! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

Learn more about editing

Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

Get help at the Teahouse

If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:

Volunteer at the Task Center

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date.

Happy editing! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:17, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Developing an article

[edit]

If you see shortcomings in an article, feel free to go ahead and fix it, so long as you keep in mind one important principle:

That principle actually means that in reality you may have to do a lot of research in the sense of background reading and taking note of references that you will be able to use. What you can't do is publish a new theory or make a leap of logic from your own assessment of the sources (wp:synthesis).

So congratulations! You just volunteered to develop Open borders because it does indeed suffer from the issues you diagnose. Just be careful to avoid overdoing it to the extent of creating a wp:fork of the generic Border article. Seriously though, it is a controversial topic to pick for your first big edit marathon so maybe you might be wise to get some practice on a lower profile topic. It is depressing when another editor undoes a contribution that you spent hours working on.

Welcome again to Wikipedia! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:17, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you have been here a while but nobody welcomed you. Looks like you could start work straight away. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:21, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]