User talk:Whodat2112
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{{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 15:35, 10 May 2014 (UTC)Quick note
Hi, you are new here. I saw the note you left on Alexbrn's page, here. Just wanted to let you know that this comment was very out of line. We talk about content, not contributors - and we especially never talk about editor's personal motivations or their personal history. It is totally fine to ask someone "can you please explain why you made that change?", but not to try to dig into personal motiviations.
If you do decide to stick around (and I hope you do!), please do know that Wikipedia is actually a pretty complicated place.
Being an "encyclopedia that anyone can edit" means that over the years, Wikipedia has developed lots of policies and guidelines (
The more I have learned about how things are set up here - not just the letter of PAG and the various drama boards and administrative tools, but their spirit - the more impressed I have become at how beautiful this place can be. It takes time to learn both the spirit and the letter of PAG, and to really get aligned with Wikipedia's mission to crowdsource a reliable, NPOV source of information for the public (as "reliable" and "NPOV" are defined in PAG!).
People come edit for many reasons, but one of the main ones is that they are passionate about something. That passion is a double-edged sword. It drives people to contribute which has the potential for productive construction, but it can also lead to