User:HJ Mitchell/A Fool's Guide to...

A Fool's Guide to... will eventually, the author hopes, become a collection of guides and essays with the aim of recording what I've learnt, in the hope that others might find it useful. It will be particularly aimed at the inexperienced editor looking to find their place on Wikipedia and at the slightly more experienced editor looking for the Wikipedia equivalent of a career change.

It is named A Fool's Guide to..., because I believe if I can master the tasks these guides deal with, almost anybody can. I'm hoping to dispel, or at least diminish, the myths surrounding these tasks and so make people realise that they don't need natural born talent to write an FA or that they don't need anything more than a solid grasp of the English language to be a good copy-editor.

A Fool's Guide to... is a work in progress (well, it's not even that yet!), and the author is lazy, and busy, and quite enjoying this opportunity to refer to himself in the third person, so it may be a while before anything here can be called "finished", but at some point in the not-too distant future, the author hopes, something will emerge here that somebody might find "useful", or at least "interesting".

— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   01:34, 23 July 2011 (UTC)