User talk:Haaker

Hi Haaker, I take it you are 69Firebird400 from GMI - so, welcome to Wikipedia!

I am very happy to see another GMI member join the WP community, and I would like to invite you to our little "GMI Project" (see talk page for interesting discussions). At present, it's all quiet there, as there aren't many members, but I hope more people will join and it will unwind.

One important thing worth taking into consideration while editing, and also, sadly, widely ignored, is the importance of citing sources. When you cite a source that substantiates your edit, it becomes much more reliable, as it can be cross-checked with the reference. Most Wikipedia articles are still in the development stage, but one day they will all have to be properly referenced, and it is much easier for individual users to state where they derive their info from than to later look for references for entire chunky articles. Even if the info is commonly available, just state one reliable source you know of.

I encourage you to read Citing sources, Footnotes and Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations. That's quite a bit of reading, but I believe it might be very useful.

Thanks a lot and have fun! Bravada, talk - 13:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)