User talk:Alcritter

Welcome!

Hello, Alcritter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!Jytdog (talk) 20:09, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
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Sourcing
Hi Alcritter. Please do check out the links above. While Wikipedia is indeed an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, we also have some pretty rules you have to follow. One of them, is that no "original research" is allowed here. Everything in Wikipedia that is not just common sense ("the sky is blue" kind of thing) needs to come from a reliable, secondary source. Please do not just add content to Wikipedia based on what you think is true.. that is not how we roll here. Instead, please base content on reliable sources. Please see WP:RS. We are "editors" not "authors" here. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 20:11, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Edit warring
Please don't edit war. Please! Please read WP:BRD and follow it. thanks!Jytdog (talk) 20:14, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Last note
You seem like a smart and literate person. Quick additional note. When Wikipedia policies and guidelines and followed, WP can be a rigorous and excellent piece of scholarship. However, because it is so absurdly (and wonderfully) easy to edit, people click "edit" and add all kinds - and I mean all kinds - of rubbish. Wikipedia is an almost perfect test of personal standards and self-discipline. You can choose to follow policy and guidelines and be part of creating something that is exceptional, or you can edit in whatever pops into your head or whatever you think is right. It is remarkable! I hope you stick around and help WP excel, in the greek sense of that term -- to realize its nature. Jytdog (talk) 22:09, 8 May 2014 (UTC)