User talk:MPW NYC

Welcome
I'm trying to learn how to create columns and tables, and understand templates and the wiki text formatting codes (I never learned html coding). The help pages and Missing Manual are helpful, but I haven't found anything that covers all I want to know. I definitely want to be a good and helpful editor, an am nervous about making big mistakes. Any suggestions or advice, or links to other help pages I haven't found yet?


 * Thanks for all your contributions so far. It is always wonderful to see a new contributor who is eager to get it right.  There are lots of helpful things to do on Wikipedia, but the three most helpful and important are: add references, add references, add references (to WP:Reliable sources).  Please go back to the articles you worked on and check that you added references (include all available bibliographic information: author name, title, publisher name, year of publication, page number, ISBN or ASIN number).  -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * BTW, to see excellent examples of Wikipedia articles, see the list of WP:Featured Articles. Some Featured Articles about musicals include The King and I, Carousel (musical) and Noël Coward. -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:43, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Awards tables
IMO, awards tables are a waste of space and usually contain stupid minor awards, like the Drama League Awards (or worse, the Broadway.com audience awards) that are really not very prestigious (and therefore, not "encyclopedic" -- not important enough to mention in an encyclopedia article about the show). If you look at our FA articles, the awards tables are generally not included (although to pacify fans, we often put them in a sub-article). Instead, a concise narrative mention of the major awards is made. Many other editors here disagree with me, but I really believe that all the information in the huge table can be communicated much more efficiently, and can include useful analysis and commentary, in narrative prose in the Reception section. Just thought I'd give you my opinion. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:08, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge
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