User talk:Breakroute

Don't beat on the newbies
At Teahouse, suggest you be patient with questioners. That's one of the reasons experienced editors take shifts fielding questions. Other editors are allowed to step in (I do), but the general rule is be kind. David notMD (talk) 23:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay User:David notMD I will not answer any Newbies questions. Breakroute (talk) 08:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

La Aurora International Airport - Whale
For breaking 3RR, edit warring in a hopeless conflict between man and machine. As I've said at User talk:MusikAnimal, it's a candidate for WP:LAME, when it looks like Ymblanter forgot to actually protect the page. I don't think it's a case for ANEW, since it involves a bot that should be programmed otherwise, but it's still edit warring. &#x2230; Bellezzasolo &#x2721;  Discuss  21:57, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Crash course Wikipedia: The most important stuff
There are many, many policies on Wikipedia, all with accompanying multi-paragraph essays. It can be overwhelming at first and it may seems like often-held precedents don't always align with the word-for-word policies. However, once you "dip your toes in the water" you will realize things aren't nearly as difficult as they seem. Today, we will go over some of the core policies; copyright and wikietiquette.

Copyright - With some very few specific exceptions (that we will cover later), all items on Wikipedia, both text and images, must be under a free license. By "free license", the Wikimedia foundation means that commercial use and derivative works of the item are allowed. Specifically, you may come across public-domain text from the CIA world factbook or an NTSB accident report incorporated into an article once in a while (it MUST be specified that the text is reused, where is it from, and what license it is under). In most cases when we write articles, we just compose text ourselves by learning about the topic, and providing in-line citations to reliable sources.

On Wikimedia Commons, absolutely no fair-use items of any kind are allowed. That is because Commons is for use on all Wikipedia projects (it is used not only on English Wikipedia which allows some limited fair-use in special circumstances, but Commons is also used on Dutch Wikipedia - which does not allow fair-use at all.) So when you want to use a fair-use item on English Wikipedia, the file must be uploaded locally, be low-resolution, and have a non-free media rational explaining why that specific item is permitted. The main reasons to have a fair-use item in an article are portraits of deceased people who do not have a photo under a free license (since nobody can take a new photo of them), and several other things like book covers. (For now, don't worry about uploading fair-use images - the templates are complex, and it takes a while to understand the whole process. If you want to use a fair-use item in an article, feel free to ask me to do it for you. What you mainly need to know is that there are a few non-free items on English Wikipedia, but that no items on Commons are fair-use. (see the full fair-use policy here)

Wikietiquette - Some old users tend to "bite the newbies". I got bit by Jytdog when I was a newbie, and I left for a while before I came back. If anyone ever "bites", ping me and I will take care of all of it. Awareness of a few major wikipedia policies significantly reduces the risk of being bitten. (Some of these policies are more public than others) For example, when citing information in an article do not cite websites that are "blacklisted" by Wikipedia (The bigs ones are, the Daily Mail, Planespotters.net, and websites that are mirror-sites of Wikipedia (like wiki2.org/)

One final thing that confuses every newbie - redlinked items and titles do not always meet the notability guidelines. Many people tend to redlink stuff that doesn't qualify to have an article, so don't assume that writing redlinks from articles are safe. Notability guidelines also vary from wiki to wiki - an article on Russian Wikipedia may or may not qualify as notable (ie, not deletable) on English Wikipedia.

Happy editing! --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 18:19, 17 December 2018 (UTC)