User talk:EnglishTeacherRetired

Angel of the North
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. It’s a great place (generally!), and we hope you’ll stay. And thanks for your interest in the Angel of the North. A few pointers to help you get started:
 * Verifiability - everything we write on here needs to be verifiable, i.e. readers can check that it is accurate. To achieve this, we use:
 * Citations - which enable readers to cross-check the information they are reading. This allows the reader to verify the information against a:
 * Reliable source - so that they can see that it’s not Wikipedia saying “x”, but rather that the reliable source says “x”.
 * We try to link items, where that would help the reader so, for example, you can link Brenda Blethyn, by putting double square brackets around her name. When you do that, the link shows up as blue text.
 * Finally, it’s worth remembering that Wikipedia’s not the encyclopaedia of everything. We need to make judgements as to whether a particular fact, even if true, is really important to the article subject.

So, with your edit on the Angel of the North, you’d need to re-work it a bit. This would do:
 * “The statue was also popularised [UK spelling as it’s an article about a British place] as an establishing image of the ITV detective series Vera, staring Brenda Blethyn as the title character.

Then, you’d just have to decide whether the information you’ve added is really important to the article.

Wikipedia can be a bit of a complicated place, but it’s worth persevering with! I was rubbish at the tech side when I started but there are always editors around who are happy to help. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 21:19, 23 January 2022 (UTC)