User talk:Andy Stunich

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Arab-Israeli conflict
Hi Andy, Welcome, I see you're jumping right into things and doing a lot of editing over at Arab-Israeli conflict. It would probably be helpful for you to read some of the above help pages. I also suggest reading these essential policies you'll need to familiarize yourself with as a newbie: neutral point of view, no original research, reliable sources, as well as the Manual of Style reference above by IZAK that will help you with formatting. An especially important note, for your edits to survive and not be ruthlessly edited, you'll need to back up what you write with sources.

Also, newbies tend to start out with an editorializing style that we are compelled to avoid here in order to be neutral and encyclopedic. For example, your sentence, "Given Iran's increasing involvement in the conflict and the likelihood that it will play a major role in the future of the conflict, it may be more accurate in the future to describe the conflict as the Islamic-Israeli conflict. Such a designation would more accurately describe the participation in the conflict of Muslims throughout the World who are not Arabs." This may all be true, but we can't express editorial opinion or make suggestions in the articles. We have to instead phrase it something like "Expert XYZ suggests that the designation blah-blah-blah more accurately describes the conflict...."

Most editors go easy on newbies, but you'll want to learn some of these community rules of thumb for editing here and get up to speed on the above. Happy editing! -- M P er el ( talk 02:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)