User talk:Coffee1995

Welcome
Hello, Coffee1995, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place " " on this page and someone will drop by to help. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 17:39, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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Constructive criticism
Hi again. Glad to see you received your password and are now able to log in and contribute. I put you in my Watchlist so I could be sure that problems really were solved. You probably want to add Biggby Coffee to your own watchlist (at the very top of this page).

It's great that you are BOLD and jumped right into editing the encyclopedia. But there is a bit of a learning curve before you can claim to be a good or expert Wikipedian. If you right-click HERE and open in a new browser window, you can follow along with my critique of your first edit.


 * 1) It is customary to bold the first mention of the subject of an article.  The three single quotation marks on each side of Biggby Coffee are Wiki markup that made the words appear in bold.  See MOS:BOLDTITLE (MOS = Wikipedia's Manual of Style).  Please edit the Biggby Coffee page again and bold the title (it's good editing practice).
 * 2) Double-brackets around words or phrases links them to other articles in Wikipedia.  For example, put double-brackets around East Lansing, Micihgan and it becomes East Lansing, Michigan.  That's common Wiki markup per the WP:MOS.  In my opinion, the original was overlinked.  Everybody knows about coffee so it didn't need to be linked.  Franchise is a less common word in other English-speaking countries and should probably be Wiki-linked with the double brackets.  Your addition of Michigan State University should probably also be Wiki-linked.
 * 3) Now look at your first addition:
 * Currently is a no-no. Because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the article about Biggby Coffee may exist for decades or more, time-frames should be specific.  See WP:PRECISELANG.  The use of an As of template is encouraged.
 * ...one of the fastest growing and largest... See WP:PEACOCK. Other editors may accuse you of promotional editing for additions like that.  Another editor, Coffeefan95 was banned for much more serious promotion on the Biggby Coffee page.
 * Claims like fastest growing and largest need to be attributed to reliable sources such as a business journal or newspaper. With no reference cited, the claim is likely to be removed by other editors who monitor recent changes to the encyclopedia.

Click on the Edit tab next to the section title to see the Wiki-markup I used to present this critique of your first edit. Don't be discouraged. What seems complicated and daunting now will soon become routine if you spend just a little time editing once in a while. A good place to go for advice or questions is Wikipedia's Teahouse, a place dedicated to helping newcomers. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you need help. I hope this is helpful. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 19:01, 10 October 2013 (UTC)