Sestein
Welcome! edit
Hi Sestein, 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)
Your recent edit at Ann Arbor edit
Hi. I just wanted to let you know why I reverted your recent edit at the above article. Unless information such as that is sourced (e.g. "The Detroit Free Press said in a recent article that Ann Arbor is an excellent place for foodies", followed by a citation to the newspaper article), it is essentially your personal opinion, which isn't something that goes in an encyclopedia. All encyclopedias, be they print ones like World Book or Wikipedia, are what are known as tertiary sources. That means that essentially we only report on what others have written. The policy that goes with this is WP:OR. Thanks for joining the cadre of Wikipedia editors, and please don't be discouraged. The learning curve for Wikipedia is rather steep, and all editors, not just newer ones, get their edits reverted all the time. It is the nature of collaborative project such as this. I will leave you a link to a Q&A forum especially for new users called the Teahouse, where you can bring your questions on how to edit successfully here. It is staffed by friendly people who will explain things to you, rather than just refer you to a policy or guideline and essentially say "figure it out yourself". Without them, I would have never continued editing here. But there is help available for you at Teahouse pretty much 24/7. Welcome to Wikipedia, and happy editing. BTW, Ann Arbor sure must have changed in the 30 years since I left there. The food sucked, except for that cool hamburger joint down by the Arb. (Jimmy's? I don't remember, but all they sold was burgers, fries and deep fried battered veggies, and played classical music at ear splitting volumes). Gtwfan52 (talk) 17:52, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse! edit
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Your submission at Articles for creation edit
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Your submission at Articles for creation edit
- If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/D:hive.
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- Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! —Anne Delong (talk) 21:32, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/D:hive, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.
If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.
You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.
If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.
Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 02:08, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/D:hive edit
Hello Sestein. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "D:hive".
The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/D:hive}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, click "Save", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 23:24, 20 January 2014 (UTC)