User talk:Jtridenour

Welcome!
Hello, Jtridenour, 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

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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! --Red King (talk) 00:49, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Your identity
Unfortunately Wikipedia has no way of verifying your identity or indeed any wish to do so. So the same rule applies to you as does to me: all significant contributions must be supported by a citation of a wp:reliable source (an external agency such as a newspaper or a government publication that can be checked). That is our defence against spoofs.

Your contribution is very welcome, it just needs to be backed up so that readers don't have to take our word for it. (NB "our", you are one of us now.)

Finally, you may have guessed from my "defence' rather than "defense" that I am not a US citizen, which may explain a more forthright response that you might have expected. We are all volunteers here, not representatives of the Wikipedia Foundation. --Red King (talk) 00:49, 27 November 2019 (UTC)