User talk:Lsmroczk32

Welcome!

Hello, Lsmroczk32! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! TNXMan 17:48, 17 February 2011 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Mentoring

Hi Lsmroczk32, I will be happy to be your mentor. Nice to see you have such broad interests and ambitions! If you have questions or need feedback regarding your edits, always feel free to contact me on my user talk page. I will try to keep an eye on your edits and help out where I can. I see you already made your first article edit on Citizens Campaign for the Environment. One of the most important things when editing is to provide inline citations. For this particular article, it will also be important to establish notability, as the article has once already been deleted in 2008 for lack of proof of notability. Wish you happy editing! --Elekhh (talk) 02:51, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

That would be bad, because it means that if anybody contests the notability of this NGO, the article would be deleted. Did you have a look on the websites of major newspapers? If you can't find any third party sources, I think it would be safer for you to choose another article for your assignment. --Elekhh (talk) 19:47, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi again, I see you started to work on Onondaga Lake by improving the lead. Make sure you keep your article focus up to date on the course page. cheers, --Elekhh (talk) 00:17, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Editing hints

Hi again, good to see you continue the work on Onondaga Lake. I just want to introduce few editing features you might find helpful:

• For each edit you can provide an edit summary. This will help other editors easily identify the changes you made, and assists you as needed.
• If you are unsure of the result of your edit, or when testing the page layout, it is very useful to take advantage of the preview feature.

cheers, --Elekhh (talk) 02:27, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

That seems to go well so far, so a couple more suggestions below:

• There is a uniform manual of style for section headings, which are to be formatted as article titles using lower case.
• You can reuse the same reference in an article by giving it a name, as explained here. That will keep the list of references shorter and make your work easier as well. --Elekhh (talk) 06:16, 26 April 2011 (UTC)