User talk:Catherine Chong

Welcome!
Hello, Catherine Chong, 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 talk 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! Charles (talk) 19:44, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
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Adoption
Hi Catherine. I notice that you've requested adoption through the Adopt-a-user project. I'd be happy to take you on as an adoptee if you so wish. I'm a fairly hands-off adopter - I generally don't put my adoptees through a series of tests and exams, though I will do so if you ask me to - and I tend mainly to offer suggestions rather than giving specific tasks. If you're interested, drop me a line on my talkpage. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 12:42, 12 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Consider yourself adopted! About me, since you asked: I'm primarily a behind-the-scenes editor (I don't do a great deal of content creation, working mainly on maintaining the integrity the articles we already have) and since becoming an administrator I've spent most of my time dealing with articles that shouldn't be here and people who probably shouldn't be here either. In spite of this, I'm not what we'd call a deletionist, at least I wouldn't describe myself as such, but I am something of a stickler for the rulebook and try to adhere closely to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines - there are a lot of these.
 * In real life I play Go, practice aikido and attempt to prevent my two small children from killing or maiming themselves/each other/me.
 * Now, to business. I'm interested in knowing what you would like to do within Wikipedia (or more precisely, where you'd like to start). I see from your edit history that you're interested in the Music WikiProject, which covers one area of interest. To begin with, would you be interested in learning how to use the WIkiProject to locate and improve music-related articles? Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 06:50, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Finding things to do
Hi Catherine. First off, there's no need to apologise for being incommunicado - there's no deadline on Wikipedia. If you don't edit at all for more than three months in a row I may place your adoption on hold until I hear from you, but aside from that proviso there's no rush to respond to anything.

The Music Wikiproject don't have an assessment chart yet, but there are several categories you can use to find articles that need improving. Across Wikipedia, articles are categorised by their quality: the order goes like this (click on [show] at that end &rarr; of the bar to view):

Obviously the articles you'd be interested in are the Start- and Stub-class ones, since these need the most improvement. Whilst there's no category for WikiProject Music articles generally, a number of the sub-projects have categories that you can use, for example: All of these categories list articles (technically they list the talkpages of the articles) which are in serious need of improvement. What I suggest you do is this: Choose an article from any of the above categories. Fix any spelling or grammar issues that you find, then see if you can locate more information and add it to the article, or find references for what's already there. Once you've had a bit of a crack at it, let me know and I'll have a look and (hopefully) congratulate you on making Wikipedia a bit better! Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 08:23, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Start-Class Music theory articles
 * Stub-Class Music theory articles
 * Start-Class music genre articles
 * Stub-Class music genre articles
 * Start-Class musical instruments articles
 * Stub-Class musical instruments articles

Adoption closed
Hi Catherine. Since you haven't madde any edits since October, I'm going to make the assumption that you no longer have an interest in editing Wikipedia. That's absolutely fine; but since the adoption program is designed for users who are at least moderately active in editing, there seems to be no point in continuing your adoption. I am still more than happy to help you out with any questions you have, but I think it sensible to end the "formal" adoption arrangement, so I'm doing so. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  10:51, 11 January 2013 (UTC)