User talk:JadeRice

Welcome!
Hello, JadeRice, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


 * Introduction and Getting started
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
 * Simplified Manual of Style

You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Longhair\talk 07:47, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for helping me out. All the information you shared helped me a lot.JadeRice (talk) 07:53, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

An extended welcome
Hi JadeRice. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 14:29, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, Ronz. Thanks!

I went through the links that you mentioned. Although they were very helpful, I am still quite confused about what kind of edits should I be making then?JadeRice (talk) 06:24, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Jason Stone
Hi JadeRice. Sorry I didn't respond to your question above, earlier.

I left you that detailed welcome because your editing looks to be contrary to Wikipedia's policies and goals. It was an attempt to get you to take some time to realize that editing Wikipedia may not be as easy as some make out, and there are many policies in place to prevent editors from using Wikipedia inappropriately.

My guess is that you have a conflict of interest. If that's the case, you'll need to disclose and edit much more carefully. If it's not the case, you need to work to distance your editing from that of someone trying to hide a conflict of interest. Wikipedia is not a venue for promotion.

The formatting within your edits is very good for an inexperienced editor. Many editors struggle with formatting, so there are always articles where the formatting needs work, especially completing the references with the proper fields (publication date and authorship are two that you sometimes miss). Teahouse is specifically for getting help as a new editor, and I certainly expect they could answer your question far better than I. --Ronz (talk) 17:55, 2 October 2018 (UTC)