User talk:Kkheffner

Hello, Kkheffner! Welcome to Wikipedia, and all that.

I'm afraid that I'm going to have to call your attention to an inadvertent breach of etiquette that you made in the second edit of your Wikipedia career. You corrected the time zone for Roscoe, Nebraska, and in doing so, checked the box for "This is a minor edit".

Actually, any time that you add, remove, or change content, you should not check the minor-edit box. The proper use of the minor-edit label is discussed in excruciating detail at WP:MINOR, which is one of about 800 pages on Wikipedia policies and standards and etiquette that you probably haven't yet had a chance to read. Basically, it's limited to edits that don't affect content at all. I'm a moderately prolific editor myself, and I'd guess that I only use the minor-edit label for something like 2% of my edits.

No fault to you for not knowing this, of course, and hope that this note doesn't discourage you from staying with Wikipedia and continuing to make useful contributions (especially in Nebraska, where we don't have all that many editors at work). Just wanted to let you know about this early in your career, before you had a chance to develop a bad habit.

Hope that you do stay with Wikipedia and do more useful work. If you've got any questions that I might be able to help you with, feel free to leave a note at my talk page (click on the "talk" in my signature, then edit the page; if you're asking a new question, you should probably start a new section for it). I'm not the most experienced editor out there, but I've been around long enough that I might be able to help with any difficulties you might have. Good luck! — Ammodramus (talk) 16:02, 3 April 2015 (UTC)