User talk:Enfiladissa

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! And I'm happy to see you participating in maintenance so soon. Jamie (talk/contribs) 08:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC) - The hello I sent you is a standard message (see Template:welcome) which wikipedians sent often send to those who just started contributing. I added the "maintenance" comment because I had seen you doing cleanup work on articles, and participating in Articles for Deletion &mdash; both of which are unsual (and good) to see from a new contributor.
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As for the nonsense, we try to clean it up. There are a lot of very good articles here, but there is also a lot of complete garbage... and everything in between. The stuff that is mediocre we try to fix. People are encouraged to correct mistakes and otherwise improve articles in any way they can. The really bad stuff we delete... if you were participating in Articles for Deletion you will have seen some examples of the garbage we're trying to get rid of.

I can see that Wikipedia can be confusing to the new contributor. Mostly this is because the community has a large set of social and procedural practices which have evolved over time. So long as you are simply reading and editing articles, there's not much to be worried about. Just do what seems right, when improving an article that you find needs improvement. Don't worry, you can't really damage anything. Any mistake you might make can easily be un-done; the system remembers every revision of every article.

Once you start working together with other members of the community, you may run into some practices that you find confusing. This is especially true in the maintainance areas, where people use a lot of shortcuts and jargon in their discussions. Feel free to ask a more experienced wikipedian for help by leaving a message on their talk page.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia and happy editing! Jamie (talk/contribs) 09:53, 23 December 2005 (UTC)