User talk:A533jcis

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To the prof: I've made some typographic changes to satellite galaxy that you should incorporate as your base, as a cleanup on the version you have here, before your class begins. 76.66.203.138 (talk)

Drafts, Helpful Wikiprojects, and Shared Accounts
Hello. First, welcome to Wikipedia! I've learned about the U Michigan project via WT:AST, and as long as you're taking care to follow Wikipedia's rules, I think this is a great idea.

A helpful tip regarding scratch articles in userspace: A good place to put that would be at a location along the lines of User:A533:jcis/(subpage name), rather than at User:A533jcis. People who check this account will expect the root user-page to be about you, and finding other material there may cause concern for reasons unrelated to you. If you need help shuffling content around, just ask; there's a "move" feature that preserves change-history (though it can also scramble things if you're not careful; hence asking).

A second tip is that you can ask the astronomy wikiproject and astronomical objects wikiproject members to review your sample rewrites and help you integrate the changes into the main article. They can be contacted at the talk pages of those wikiprojects (WT:AST and WT:ASTRO, respectively). Making major changes is always a process of negotiation, and taking the time to check with other editors will make the process run a lot more smoothly.

Lastly, a policy point that might cause you trouble if you're not prepared for it: per WP:NOSHARE, Wikipedia forbids use of a single account by multiple people. In a case like this, despite it being a benign use, you'd still end up with the account blocked by administrators. The way around this is to either have a single person acting as gatekeeper and performing the edits on behalf of all students, or to have one account per student (who knows, you may want to continue editing Wikipedia after your project finishes!).

In any event, welcome aboard, and happy editing! --Christopher Thomas (talk) 08:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)