User:Shrewmania

Hello, Shrewmania, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field . Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC) Getting started Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page Article Wizard - a Wizard to help you create articles How you can help Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

Welcome!

Hello, and (as it says above), Welcome to Wikipedia: :) This is quite belated, I see, as you've been registered since November 2010 and your first edit suggests you'd probably edited before, whether as an IP or under a different username. I've left you the "welcome mat" anyway, simply because I found the one given me incredibly useful for some time. You are, of course, completely welcome to remove it if you do not. :D

I see from your contribution history that we have some interests in common, although I typically work the administrative back end of Wikipedia rather than copyright-related articles. (Substantial similarity is one of the few exceptions there, primarily because I created it. You may already know that this does not give me any more authority over what it says than anybody else, but I'm still kind of interested in what happens to it.)

Anyway, I've replied to your question at the talk page of Substantial similarity, and whether we continue talking there or not, odds are that I'll run into you at some point or the other somewhere. :) But if I can help you as you make your way around, please feel free to come by my talk page. Currently my work doesn't always allow me to check in on weekdays, but I do my best to get to everything eventually. :D

As a final note, while you seem to be doing just fine on your own, I did want to let you know that we have "projects" where people with similar interests draw together to share documents related to standard practices and (when the projects are well functioning!) to discuss issues and collaborate on work. Given your focus, you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Law. Projects are completely optional--whether you join one or not, and, if you do, how much time you put into it. But I wanted to let you know about the availability in case you're interested and haven't already discovered them for yourself. :)

Happy editing! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Responses From Shrewmania

Thank you, Moonriddengirl, for taking the time to create this page; I was unaware of it until just recently. While it just so happens that, to date, most of my edits have been in legal matters (my interest in which is moreso motivated by worries about them than anything else), my interests are not primarily in law. Again, thank you for creating this page thusfar. -- Shrewmania (talk) 00:57, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

On Consensus

Unlike what WP:SILENT says, my silence does not automatically indicate my consent to the contents of an article. Furthermore, just because I don't edit the content or words of an article doesn't automatically mean I agree with them, and the contents of Wikipedia articles do not necessarily reflect my views.