User talk:Roland.zwaga

Welcome!
Hello, Roland.zwaga, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Mind matrix  15:42, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
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Overlinking
Please read WP:OVERLINK. An article should contain one link to another Wikipedia article (exceptions being appearances in templates, tables, etc.). Please do not link every occurrence of a noun in an article, as you've done with Delerium and other articles. Thank you. Mind matrix  15:42, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, please don't link to an article unless it contains some information that is relevant to the subject of the article where you are placing the link. To give just example out of dozens, the article 1989 in music contains nothing at all about Noise Unit, and so linking from that article is unlikely to be any help to someone trying to find information about Noise Unit, which is the purpose of a wikilink. An even more striking example is your link to the Decade from Delerium. The article on "decade" contains nothing remotely related to the band. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:57, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Alright, I'm sorry for the screw-ups, I guess I was a little over-enthusiastic :) I'll be sure to follow the rules better from now on.
 * My advice to new Wikipedia editors is to start slowly, making a few small changes to articles to begin with. That way, any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't lose a lot of work if it's reverted. After a while you will learn how things go, and be able to edit on a bigger scale without fear of losing everything. (And we all were newcomers once, and didn't know how things worked.) JamesBWatson (talk) 19:10, 10 May 2013 (UTC)


 * And, by the way, I wouldn't worry about the vandalism report. I don't think your edits look remotely like vandalism, and neither did the administrator who dealt with the report. JamesBWatson (talk)

Ok, thanks a lot for all the advice, I'm going to take it a tad slower in the future :)

Invitation to the WP:Teahouse
Hello Roland.zwaga, I saw that you ran a into the Manual of Style a little. Happily, you acted exactly like you should, boldly doing what you think makes the encyclopedia better. I just wanted to say thanks for your work and point you to the WP:Teahouse. It's a discussion forum for new editors to get help, talk about Wikipedia editing or just shoot the breeze. If you run into trouble again and want some help, let us know. -- EpochFail  (talk &bull; work) 15:18, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks EpochFail, I'm happy I didn't get shot down immediately for being overzealous, folks have been really helpful in pointing me in the right directions. Much appreciated!

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