User talk:Stafila01

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Barnstars are not "Welcome"s They are awarded for hard work and significant achievement. Editors don't award themselves barnstars. The barnstar that you awarded yourself is specifically for editors who have made significant contribution to articles on Literature. You have to earn it, before you get it. Consequently, I'm deleting it, in the presumption that you didn't realise this. Amandajm (talk) 05:02, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

The most basic rules of editting

 * Look before you add anything, to find the right section of the article.
 * In a large article there may be numerous sections.
 * In a large topic there will be a list of additional articles (See also) at the bottom.  Sometimes your info may fit better into one of the linked articles e.g. Julius Caesar (the main article) links to Military campaigns of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar in popular culture and others.


 * Read before you add anything.
 * If your information is not a major point, it wont be in the Introduction but further down the article. Check the article thoroughly.


 * Think before you add anything. Is your addition going to add to the sense, or take away?
 * Jamming a sentence (or even part of a sentence) in the wrong place can be very destructive to the meaning of a paragraph. Make sure the information flows from what is there already.


 * Look before you add a picture.
 * Some articles are not very carefully laid out. Others, particularly those about art/architecture related topics are very carefully designed.
 * Before you put a picture in, decide:
 * whether it actually adds to the content
 * whether it matches the text that it is near
 * whether there is already a photo in place that serves the purpose better
 * whether the picture causes overcrowding
 * Realise that Wikimedia Commons contains thousands of pictures and, in the case of a subject (or type of image) that exist in great number, then only a few make it into the article e.g. thousands of people have photographed the Eiffel Tower but there is only room for one at the top of the article page.
 * In the case of your image of a silhouette, almost every photographer has taken at least one good silhouette picture. Putting your picture into a selection of images that relate to the history and nature of silhouette pictures wasn't helpful editting. Your snapshot simply isn't up there with the greatest works of silhouette art, still photography and Film Noir.  Moreover, surely you must have noticed that it didn't fit very well.  If you had followed the basic rules of "reading" and "looking" before editting, you would have found a more appropriate place for it.

Amandajm (talk) 05:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)