User talk:Gesoffrey Wilson

Welcome old newbie
So, as you know if you used your Help:Watching pages watchlist or simply looked at the article again, a watcher saw what you added and decided it was good. That is, good except the ref was not properly formatted. That's how it works. We're a lot of watchers, also called vigilantes. When one of our watched articles changes, we look into it. If it's bad, we hit "Undo". If it's good, we move on and look at something else. If it's very good, sometimes we hit "Thank". And if, as in this case, it's pretty much good but not entirely, we make the small, necessary improvement. That kind of collaboration lets us do things far beyond our individual powers. We don't have to know how to do everything; we can get by with just knowing a few things.

Mostly we start by adding facts that our fellows don't know. When that dries up, which is usually quick, we learn how to spell or punctuate or parallelize sentences or some such. I have studied how to insert geographical coordinates so you can click and get a map of a location. It's a small skill, one of many small skills, each having a few specialists and working within the framework. We don't have much in the way of bosses, supervisors, chairmen, dispatchers, assignment clerks, whatever. Just look into various articles on topics you know or want to know, and find something that hasn't been done as well as you think you can do it.

Oh, and you might want to establish a new account with your correctly typed name. If so, there's a correct procedure and, as usual when you fail to follow a procedure that you never heard of, some more experienced editor will politely set you straight. If you're satisfied to leave the error uncorrected forever, no problem. Most editors use a name that's completely phony; some use a minor variation, and only a few like me use our real name. Jim.henderson (talk) 02:37, 11 January 2015 (UTC)