User talk:Brettgould

Welcome!
Hello, Brettgould, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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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! Mathglot (talk) 22:37, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Transphobia
Hi, Brettgould, thanks for your to Transphobia. Unfortunately, I had to revert them, because they seem to be original research, or contradict the citation already given there. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and has a core policy that all material must be verifiable. When you add something, you need to find a reliable source to back it up, and then add a footnote explaining where you got it, title, author, page, and so on. See Help:Footnotes for more about this.

In addition, there are some topics in Wikipedia that are particularly sensitive, and any change you make will be scrutinized much more carefully than elsewhere, through a system of what is called Discretionary sanctions. Gender-related articles are one of these topic areas.

There are a lot of different rules and policies here, and it takes a while to get the hang of things, and while you are learning, it will be a lot easier if you start out by avoiding areas that are subject to Discretionary sanctions. If you keep one rules in mind at the outset, it'll give you a head-start: always add a footnote from a reliable source for any content you add to an article.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. You can also ask a question here on your talk page, and add  to your questions, and someone will be along to answer it for you. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 22:50, 13 January 2018 (UTC)