User talk:Priya Nigam

An extended welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 17:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Procurement - sourcing, controversial and complex content
Hello Priya Nigam, thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. But I hope you don't mind a quick tip in addition to ' advice above: when you write about controversial or complex topics, please make sure to use high-quality sources from acknowledged experts in reputed publications (see WP:RS for more details). PR sites like a law firm touting its own horn (falseclaimsact.com), advocacy organizations lobbying for their owns goals (whistleblowerjustice.net) or blogs are generally not good sources and should be avoided, even more so for any extraordinary or controversial claims.

I hope this tip is helpful, but please feel free to ask if you have any further questions. You can also post for advice at WP:Teahouse, a forum for new editors. Volunteers there will be glad to help. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 10:10, 14 March 2019 (UTC)