User talk:Aewick

Welcome!
Hello, Aewick, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Haley Moss. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
 * Introduction and Getting started
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
 * Simplified Manual of Style

You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help. Need some ideas about what kind of things need doing? Try the Task Center.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! DB 1729 talk 18:52, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Help for new editors
Hi. I noticed your comment on your user page User:Aewick — I have your page watchlisted — and thought I'd reply.

If you haven't read through any of the stuff linked in the welcome above, you can start be glancing through that first. By no means should you feel you have to read and understand everything in those links. Just browse through them and pay attention to items that are stressed as being important. Read closely the things that may apply to your intentions early on here at Wikipedia. If there are specific things you want to accomplish right away, and it's not covered, unclear or can't find it above, let me know and I will try to help. You can always ask questions at the Teahouse if you want.

If you just want some general advice on how to get started, I'd say start off small. Take a look at good-status articles (GA) like at Category:Good articles, preferably on topics you're interested in. See how those articles are written, how facts and claims those articles make are sourced, etc. Then look through some articles of lesser quality and see if you can make small improvements on them. Many — probably most — established editors here started out with baby steps and learned as they went along. I expect some editors who have been editing over 20 years will admit there are some things about this site they still don't understand. On the other hand, editors who jump right in and start trying to create new articles with their first edits, or have an agenda to try to right some great wrong, often either get really frustrated and quit, or get themselves into trouble.

Hope I've been of some help. -- DB 1729 talk 01:39, 2 May 2023 (UTC)