User talk:Mrtanne

Welcome to Wikipedia. You seem to be full of energy on your first day. That's great. I also see you have an interest in and some knowledge of early radio history. It's passion and expertise like that that make Wikipedia the great resource it is. We need your efforts.

I'm afraid that maybe your enthusiasm and the ease at which one can edit Wikipedia have let you get a bit "carried away" on your first day. I see someone else has already undone at least one of your edits. I hope that doesn't discourage you from continuing to contribute.

Here are some specific guidelines and criticisms:


 * When you enter new information, you must give a reference to your source for the information. None of your six entries (so far) today have done that. It looks like a couple of your edits may be from your personal knowledge. Unfortunately such information may not be entered into Wikipedia. We need a published source. That doesn't mean that your personal knowledge is not valued. We simply have no way of "vetting" it. I hope you will explore other ways to record this information, perhaps by doing so in a "blog" or online journal.


 * Your edit under the NCC disambiguation page is misplaced, inaccurate, and formatted incorrectly. That page is only for different meanings of "NCC". NCCJ does not belong there. It looks like we do need a redirect page for NCCJ. However the current name for the organization that NCCJ refers to is not National Conference of Christians and Jews but National Conference for Community and Justice.


 * Your edit of the ADL disambiguation page was both redundant and formatted incorrectly. The Anti-Defamation League was already listed under Organizations. You placed an entry under "Programming Languages". Also you did not format it correctly.


 * The entries under the disambiguation pages are bulleted. To create a bulleted item, you merely need to precede it with an asterisk. You can teach yourself how to do things like this by looking at the way the current items were entered and formatted.

Please be patient and don't take offense at all this. I've been contributing for several years and still find the environment to be occasionally intimidating. There are many resources available within Wikipedia to help people like you (and me) learn our way around. Take advantage of them. You might start here.

Good luck and keep those contributions coming! Frappyjohn (talk) 20:43, 19 April 2011 (UTC)