Mwapple
Welcome! edit
Hi Mwapple, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Ed, a recent college graduate and an editor here. As cliché as it sounds (try not to roll your eyes), Wikipedia is created by the collective contributions of regular people just like you, so I'm excited to work with you during the semester!
If you need any help, a visit to our Help:Contents page may be able to give you a swift answer. If it doesn't, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page (click "new section" for a new post, or "edit" to reply to an older post) or ask your question on this page and place {{Helpme}} before the question. No question to me is too small, as I'm all too aware that this can be a ridiculously complex website.
Your professor has also posted a helpful set of links on your course page under "Resources".
I don't want to burden you with even more pages to read (I'm sure your classes have assigned you enough reading for a lifetime), so just remember:
- Help:Contents is your link to Wikipedia's extensive collection of help pages.
- You can usually type "WP:___" in the search bar to find what you want. For example, if you wanted to find out what a talk page is, searching for WP:TALK is pretty simple.
- If those don't work, don't panic. That's what I'm here for. Leave me a message and I'll see what I can do.
Good luck! I hope you enjoy your editing here—at least as much as any student can enjoy a class assignment!—and I encourage you to continue editing after your class ends. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:52, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
You recent edit on Grand Rapids edit
Usually, when on recent change patrol, when I revert an incorrect or vandal edit, I put a template on the editors page telling them what the problem was. Well, Since you are new, I thought I'd leave you a note instead. You did a great job formatting the Wikilink you put in for Amway. Unfortunately, the Manual of Style dictates that we only wikilink a term once in an article and Amway was already wikilinked in the table of largest employers in the Economy section. No-one would expect you to know that, but that is the great thing about Wikipedia. You do something well-intentioned, but incorrect, someone else will usually come along and straighten it out for you. I want to emphasize that you formatted the link exactly right, it is just the minutia of the style manual that caused me to revert it. And don't sweat it, everyone gets reverted from time to time. I will leave you a link to a cool Q&A forum just for new editors called the Teahouse, and an open invitation to drop me a line at my talk page anytime, if you need help or just want to say hi. BTW, I am a longtime but now former Westmighigander. Lived in the Kazoo area for 25 years. Welcome to the corps of Wikipedia editors! Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Help us improve the Wikipedia Education Program edit
Hi Mwapple! As a student editor on Wikipedia, you have a lot of valuable experience about what it's like to edit as a part of a classroom assignment. In order to help other students like you enjoy editing while contributing positively to Wikipedia, it's extremely helpful to hear from real student editors about their challenges, successes, and support needs. Please take a few minutes to answer these questions by clicking below. (Note that the responses are posted to a public wiki page.) Thanks!
Delivered on behalf of User:Sage Ross (WMF), 16:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)