User talk:Dukaboom

Welcome!
Hi Dukaboom! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date.

Happy editing! --Macrakis (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Citing and overciting
No reason to have this discussion in email. The issue you bring up isn't specific to pronunciation guides. See: For a different perspective: We don't give IPA (let alone footnotes for the IPA) when a normal English-speaker can reasonably be expected to know how to pronounce an article's name. Happy editing, --Macrakis (talk) 20:50, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Citation overkill
 * You don't need to cite that the sky is blue
 * You do need to cite that the sky is blue
 * Citation underkill

Edit disagreements
See the discussion on WP:BRD. If your edits seem inappropriate or unconstructive, another editor may revert them and invite you to discuss on the Talk page. Usually this leads to an amicable resolution, which may include everything you added, nothing you added, part of what you added, or something else entirely.

Most words don't need phonetic information at all -- remember that WP is not a dictionary -- and in many cases, the pronunciation is simple or uncontroversial. If there is something complicated or controversial about pronunciation, it is sometime better to start a new section in the body of the article rather than clutter the lead: "Be wary of cluttering the first sentence with a long parenthesis containing alternative spellings, pronunciations, etc., which can make the sentence difficult to actually read; this information can be placed elsewhere." MOS:FIRST.

Hope this helps. --Macrakis (talk) 16:05, 16 January 2021 (UTC)