User talk:JamieLandHolmes

Welcome to Wikipedia

Welcome to Wikipedia JamieLandHolmes. I noticed your first two edits and wanted to welcome you. I'm quite sure you will become a valuable Wikipedian, helping to keep articles factual and free of misleading claims.

I would suggest you get settled in and get used to Wikipedia culture and specific rules and guidelines before tackling two types of pages: controversial pages; and Biographies of Living Persons.

In the latter case particularly there are special rules to protect Wikipedia against defamation lawsuits, which need to be applied rather strictly in the case of living persons. Most importantly, that statements made are sourced to Reliable Sources and that we report what they said in a fair and neutral manner and that none of what we say constitutes Original Research on our part, so sometimes it requires us to remove truthful statements and word things differently until we have a reliable source we can specifically cite or quote for such statements.

Fortunately the rules resist False Balance in matters of Fringe Theories, which allows the scientific consensus to prevail as the dominant narrative and for the most notable people involved in fringe activity.

It's possible that if you don't know these rules and apply them carefully, you will get your edits reverted rather abruptly, which might be off-putting to a new editor. It would be a shame to kill the motivation of someone so rational and put them off from contributing, so I'd advise you to learn the ropes for a little while and review the links to the policies I mentioned above, which will help you make edits that are well-sourced with citations and therefore cannot be easily reverted. Then perhaps try editing something you're passionate about or googling (or using Google Scholar) to add small citations where there's a citation needed tag. That way you'll soon get used to the place and the general sense of the rules we need to follow to make our edits really persist. Perhaps you can look into Wikiprojects for some of your interests. I'm in Wikiproject:Skepticism, for example, which encourages | rationality and critical thinking on wikipedia.

Welcome again, and may your time as a Wikipedian be long, accomplished and enjoyable. Dynamicimanyd (talk) 13:25, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Recent edit to Liza Minnelli
Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. Please provide citations to reliable sources for your content. If you need assistance, please leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Vertium '' When all is said and done