User talk:GreenLineMan

What do I edit?
This is probably a common question, but I'm ready to get started as a new wikipedian and I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to start. I think I would be best suited (at least for now) to proofreading articles to correct grammar, spelling, or punctuation. At the same time, many articles in topics that interest me are already well-written articles that don't need much help in that regard.

I'd also appreciate a little advice about finding sources to add new information to articles that need it.

Thanks a lot.

 GreenLineMan   (talk)  20:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Take a look at a list I have compiled here, it has many things to work on. Thanks! Samwb123T-C-E 20:59, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Have a look at the "Help out" section at the bottom of Community portal. A useful task which shows you all sorts of articles is correcting mis-spellings - see WP:TYPO. Read that page carefully before starting, because there are pitfalls, like US vs. British spelling. For finding sources, see Identifying reliable sources. There is a useful template for doing multiple searches, which is written . When you use it you get, for example:
 * showing the reults of searches in Google (excluding Wikipedia), Google News, Google Books, Google Scholar etc. I'll leave the helpme tag to attract other suggestions. JohnCD (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * showing the reults of searches in Google (excluding Wikipedia), Google News, Google Books, Google Scholar etc. I'll leave the helpme tag to attract other suggestions. JohnCD (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Regarding sources, here's some of my tricks for free material:


 * Google books: obviously you need some knowledge of what to type into searches to find good content but that's a whole dissertation. However, some general advice is to go to advanced and limit it to limited preview and full view, ala, here (as you can see, I've also altered the default of only ten results to 50);
 * Google News: many a person doesn't realize how useful it is because it defaults to searching only the past 30 days, and does not make this clear at all. Always go to advanced and then to archive search, ala, here;
 * Brooklyn Daily Eagle a great unknown source for older material (only has content between 1841 and 1902);
 * Old Fulton NY Postcards (13,501,000 NY local newspapers);
 * Chronicling America (1860 - 1922);
 * If you need advice on how to cite your results, well that's a whole other subject that I;d gladly discuss with you if you need it, just hit me up on my talk page.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:25, 1 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all the advice; I've got some stuff for me to do now.  GreenLineMan   (talk)  21:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Question
I noticed your comment on the Adoptee page. Do you still have questions or need help? -- Mahanga (Talk) 03:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

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GOCE Drive – Final push
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Skyfest Celebration
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Vital Articles
To all editors displaying the "Vital Articles" template on their User Page.

Hi,

I recently tried to make a change to the list of Level 3 Vital Articles by replacing the entry

with a new replacement article

Although I have advertised the proposed change on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles, I had no response and an anonymous IP editor took it upon himself to undo my changes on grounds that my proposal did not have a "strong consensus".

Will you please look at the discussion Wikipedia talk:Vital articles and add your opinion.

Martinvl (talk) 20:37, 25 July 2013 (UTC)