User talk:Sporcler 10

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Sporcler 10! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 13:49, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Sporcler 10! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 13:50, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Sporcler 10! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 13:51, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Sporcler 10! Thank you for your contributions. I am Gronk Oz and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Gronk Oz (talk) 00:03, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
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Some thoughts about getting started on Wikipedia
I read your post, and I readily identified with your situation. I felt much the same way about three years ago when I took the plunge into working on Wikipedia articles.

Wikipedia can easily make a person feel overwhelmed, as you said in your post. Sometimes I felt as if I would never understand it well enough to do anything constructive. At one point I decided to quit trying, but before long I put my frustration aside and resumed work on articles. Soon I was enjoying it, and I still enjoy it.

I agree with one of the responses to your post: "I recommend starting simple - first look for pages which need simeple, uncontroversial changes like spelling or grammar errors. Once you're comfortable with that, move on to more complex changes." Read articles on topics with which you are familiar, and look for ways to improve them. That will help you get used to techniques of Wikipedia editing and markup.

You might find articles that can benefit from having some information added to them. If so, add it — but be sure to use a reliable source as a citation for that information. Wikipedia standards require that information be documented by material such as books and newspapers. In that regard, let me recommend using Google Books and Google's newspaper archive for starters; both contain a wealth of free, searchable publications.

This note is already longer than I had intended, so I will close. I don't want to overwhelm you with suggestions as you are getting started on here. If you have questions, feel free to ask me. I don't have all the answers by any means, but I'll be glad to help if I can. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:58, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much Sporcler 10 (talk) 12:59, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

January 2017
Hello, I'm John of Reading. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Portal:Current events/Edit instructions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. John of Reading (talk) 14:19, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Donald Trump, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. – 🐈? (talk) (ping me!) 17:52, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Widr (talk) 17:57, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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