142.196.167.196

In regard your ranting edit summary on Orlando, Florida, there are no references listed in the area you made your change. So could you please clarify what it is you are ranting about? Gtwfan52 (talk) 17:57, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Ditto. See List_of_Core_Based_Statistical_Areas#United_States - MrX 20:11, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

November 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would ask that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on Orlando, Florida. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. N2e (talk) 18:03, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hello, 142.196.167.196. You have new messages at Talk:Orlando, Florida.
Message added 01:48, 4 November 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hi, and welcome

You are absolutely right about one thing and absolutely wrong about another. There is no "elite" on Wikipedia, and even if there was, I wouldn't be part of it. That is what you were wrong about. Now, what you were right about. There is nothing easy about editing wikipedia. It is undoubtedly far more complicated than it needs to be.

One thing that us folks who have been around here a while forget is that new guys like yourself don't know that we make a distinction between Wikilinks (those blue words without any symbols by them that take you to other wikipedia pages) and references (they are represented by a number which corresponds to numbered footnotes. And yes, you do have to take Wikipedia with a grain of salt, so much so that we do not allow referencing to Wikipedia on Wikipedia.

Quality control here is done by a process we call WP:BRD. Because of that, you will find that initially, much of what you put up will be reverted. The proper procedure then is to go to the article's talk page and discuss it with the other editor. The idea is that by that process, we can take different views on complicated ideas and boil it down to the version closest to the truth. Doesn't always work.

So, in short, I apologize if your first experience here was a bad one. You have admitted that you reacted badly to it, and that is an apology I accept and thank you for. If you have any interest in continuing to learn to edit wikipedia, I will be happy to help you. I will leave you a list of links to things you will need to know and a link to a question and answer forum especially for noobs like yourself. I have only been doing this less than two years, so I do remember how frustrating it can be. Any time I can help, just drop me a note on my talk page. Thanks for coming here and I hope you stay. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:56, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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Good luck and happy editing. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:58, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hello! 142.196.167.196, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:59, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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