User talk:Globalbiketourist

Harlem tour
Replying to your E-mail this afternoon. Notice I'm not using your real name, as that's confidential and this is an open Talk Page where we hope others will choose to join in to help. Wikipedia is designed to be a goldfish bowl; poorly suited to to saying a thing while limiting the audience. I wish the need for privacy were less widespread, but of course your wish in this matter is the one that must be followed.

My usual suggestion for new editors writing new articles without help from the experienced is, don't. Rather, start by expanding a relevant, long-existing article. In the case of your intended addition, I can think of two places to plant the seed: Harlem and Cycling in New York City. Better, I think, the latter. Clearly that will dilute my own authorship of the cycling article but as seen in WP:OWN we don't own what we write in an article. All should give a try at enhancing it. You have a technical and topical head start on most new editors, but you know little about how Wikicollaboration works, apart from what little I told you on the pleasant afternoon we met.

As it happens, in recent years I am less a biker, than a Wikipedia editor who finds a bicycle to be a powerful tool for urban photography. I am eager to start you on uploading photos of things that WP talks about but does not yet illustrate, or of interesting things that might turn out to be useful. I am sometimes surprised to see wiki-articles that are illustrated by other editors using my photos from Wikimedia Commons.

Besides official events, sometimes I meet several fellow editors informally, usually for dinner, pleasant conversation, and the exchange of tips. We'll see; right now Meetup/NYC is looking somewhat empty but events are in the works that are not yet ready for definite scheduling. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:27, 24 June 2018 (UTC)