User talk:Keving1987

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Vehicle registration plates of New York
No disrespect intended whatsoever, Keving1987, but most (if not all) of the edits you have made to Vehicle registration plates of New York are rookie edits.

Wikipedia does encourage boldness when editing - but only to an extent. Some level of care does still have to be taken - and the more careful you are, the less likely you are to make edits that other users will disagree with and will revert. :)

And here are a few of the things that taking care involves:


 * Explaining your edits in the edit summary box (rather than leaving other users to figure out your intentions).


 * Providing sources where possible (as long as they're reasonably reliable).


 * Realizing - and accepting - that Wikipedia is supposed to appeal to casual readers first and foremost. I take it that you are a license plate fan like myself, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. :) However, *not* everyone who reads the New York license plate article is a license plate fan (and likewise for the corresponding articles for other states), and casual readers might even be put off if the article contains a large amount of license plate trivia (especially if this trivia doesn't have sources attached).

In many ways, editing Wikipedia is like a job. When you start out, there are plenty of things about the role and the surroundings that you have to learn - but if you're at least reasonably civil and you stick it out, you'll learn all of these things, and hence more and more people will respect you. (By no means am I saying that no-one here respects you at present, of course.)

So don't be discouraged. Take that bit more care when editing, and you'll progress from being a rookie to being a decently experienced and respected editor - and you'll enjoy the experience that bit more, too. :)

Kind regards, Klondike53226 (talk) 21:08, 24 June 2020 (UTC)