User talk:Squeaksqueakn

Hi Squeaksqueakn! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

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Happy editing! 199.208.172.35 (talk) 19:48, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also, thanks for trying to help out at the Teahouse, but it would be best to hold off trying to answer questions there until you have a little more experience with editing Wikipedia. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 19:49, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice! This Learn more about editing, is it a program? Squeaksqueakn (talk) 19:57, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's a tutorial, here on Wikipedia, that will walk you through the basics of Wikipedia editing. There's both a Visual Editor and a source editing version; you can try them both to see the differences. There's also the

WP:ADVENTURE if you want something a little more exciting (though it's a bit buggy, fair warning). 199.208.172.35 (talk) 20:00, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply

]

Thank you for the heads up. I will defiantly look into both. Squeaksqueakn (talk) 20:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Squeaksqueakn. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's

requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's

required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have

.

If you work from

are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to

.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal (talk) 02:26, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @HipalThanks for the kind words of wisdom. Just here looking to help out pages and wiki as a whole. But thanks again for reaching out. Squeaksqueakn (talk) 20:36, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please remember to use edit summaries

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that one or more recent edit(s) you made did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

The edit summary field looks like this:

Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a

 → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary, and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! --Hipal (talk) 02:44, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]