User talk:Richard Comaish

A belated welcome
Hi Richard Comaish. Here's wishing you a belated 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 an 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 in collaboration.

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. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

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.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to discuss the matter on the relevant talk page.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal (talk) 21:20, 5 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you, but you can't assume that a new editor is new to editing Wikipedia.
 * I note the timing of your welcome: just before one of my first contributions, on a Talk page, was attacked and buried by a hostile group of editors (including admins) because it didn't conform to their prejudices.--Richard Comaish (talk) 14:33, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Courtesy notice
Hipal (talk) 15:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't really want to comply with the suggestion above because it seems to me that there is an element of Wiki admiministration which is out of control in this area, as reflected in last month's edit conflict. If I remember rightly, there was a time, historically, when this 'skeptic' element managed to disrupt all entries relating to astrology.--Richard Comaish (talk) 14:39, 2 September 2022 (UTC)