User talk:Fredrickajenet

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Fredrickajenet! Thank you for your contributions. I am N2e and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! N2e (talk) 04:30, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Rick. I saw your edits a few weeks ago, and welcomed you to Wikipedia. Was doing some spaceflight-related article assessment today and noticed that you would appear to be the director of the center and the STARGATE project. That can create some difficulties.

As a spaceflight-interested editor, and member of WP:WikiProject Spaceflight, I'm happy to have the improvements made. However, on the other side, Wikipedia has evolved a number of standards and policies over the years, and one of them has to do with conflicts of interest. In short, it can be tricky if someone with a conflict-of-interest edits an article they are involved in.

Therefore, I'll offer to help. If you find aspects of that article that need improvement, and if you have a reliable source, preferably a secondary source (article in a magazine/newspaper or web news site, journal article, etc.) that backs up the info, I would recommend you add suggested changes to the Talk page, and let other editors evaluate the information and make the actual edits to the article.

However, this should not dissuade you from editing Wikipedia more generally, as indicated in the Welcome, above. Would love to have your expertise on radioastronomy or astrophysics or whatever be used to help improve the encyclopedia in hundreds of articles on those topics. That is pretty much what I do, I use my background and interest in aerospace, physics, engineering, software and economics to help inform what I choose to become involved in improving on this BIG and wonderful emergent encyclopedia of human knowledge.

And personally, I wish STARGATE a lot of success, and want to help cover the project in Wikipedia better everytime we have new reliable secondary sources that can support us doing so. Cheers. N2e (talk) 17:05, 18 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot! I'm new to editing Wikipedia, but a long time user. Based on your page, I'm guessing this is the preferred way of responding to your note above. I will definitely take you up on your offer to help. Thanks again!Fredrickajenet (talk) 17:22, 18 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Great. And yes, it is definitely the best way to respond to this particular thread (the welcome and taking note of the COI policy.


 * As for specific help you want on topics in the future, if it is improvements to the STARGATE article, the STARGATE talk page will be best. I'll keep that on my watch list and will probably notice if changes are made to that page; but do always feel free to leave a Talkback template on my Talk page, and I'll join whatever discussion you ask me to, wherever it is.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 01:47, 19 October 2014 (UTC)