User talk:Tiger Karma

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Hello, Tiger Karma, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place " " on this page and someone will drop by to help. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 02:22, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
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I do like cats... and most other critters
Hi, TK. Please do contribute to the encyclopedia. To me, just fix it (WP:FIXIT in wiki-jargon) is fundamental. As you read Wikipedia, if you see something that is misspelled, incorrect, outdated or just pain wrong, fix it. If some important information is missing, do a bit of research to find a reliable source for the missing information and add a new sentence, paragraph or section with an in-line citation to the source of the information. Learn about how to do that as you go along. I hope you find the process interesting, challenging and fun.

I saw that you discovered the WikiLove button and used it. Great! Have you clicked on Edit and View history tabs? Take a look. To fix things, you need to edit. You can click on the How to edit a page link in the Welcome above. Gad! When I joined Wikipedia, I found my first look at that page mind-numbing! Every paragraph had links to more pages with more detail that linked to even more pages with even more! Don't read that stuff until you find yourself needing guidance on how to do a particular change (or how to fix a change that created unexpected changes).

To learn to edit, edit. If you're like me, you learn best by doing. What to edit? How about your User page? Right-click on that red-link or the User page tab above and choose to open it in a new browser page or tab (your choice). Now mouse-over and highlight... ..., right-click on the highlight and choose copy. (please excuse excessive detail if copy-and-paste is automatic for you) Then go to your blank User page and right-click there, choosing paste. At the bottom of the edit window, click on Preview. If you like it, put a short note in the Edit summary space, something like 'Start pg w userbox' and click save. You just did your first transclusion. You can read more about that Userbox at Template:User in Ontario. If the redlink and tab didn't already turn blue, they will after your browser refreshes. Find other userboxes about Canada and Ontario at WP:Userboxes/Location/Canada and lots more userboxes at Template:WP:UBS.

I recommend that you preserve your personal privacy by not revealing your real name or enough information to find your residence, especially if you actively edit parts of Wikipedia related to medicine. Some of the fringe groups are very aggressive in efforts to push their agenda. Some Wikipedians have received real-life threats and/or harassment for pushing back efforts to get their theory into the encyclopedia rather than keep articles based on good science. Reveal as much or as little as you want but always remember that once published in Wikipedia, it's generally there forever (with exceptions for exceptional reasons; write me again if you want more details or get into a situation where you really want something redacted and I'll guide you through the process). Tell the Wikipedia community a bit more about yourself, including if you speak/read French (that I strongly suspect you do in order to serve those from QC).

Be sure to sign edits on talk pages with four tildes. I'm watching your talk page for now so reply here. A norm is to start each paragraph of a reply with a colon to indent it, making it easier to follow threads.

Take care and have fun. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 18:10, 29 May 2017 (UTC)