User talk:Valentta

Hi Valentta,

Welcome to wikipedia!

As a technical writer you might be interested in copy-editing, so you could join the League of Copy-editors, read the Manual of Style or pick up some open tasks.

I've nominated a few article for Good article review recently and my work can always do with a read-over:

Somewhere (film)

The International (film)

Body of Lies (film)

Otherwise, try reading a few articles in fields about which you know a little and correct small errors you may find there.

A convenient guide to the wikicode (syntax for formatting wikipedia) is here: WP:Cheatsheet. Remember that most statements need to be referenced, as in an academic essay (See :Citing sources) The campus ambassador should have distributed lots of introductory materials, I'd suggest you read them. You've obviously successfully created an account and made a couple of edits, now you need to understand what a good encyclopedia article is, and its particular style. The best way is to read the best articles on wikipedia, known as featured articles. They have been tested against the featured article criteria. You should browse areas which you know a-lot about, and critically rate their quality. Once you drift outside of the featured article set, you'll find one which are of much more dubious quality: it is from these you will pick articles to work on for your class.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or questions about those articles or wikipedia generally.

Best of luck and enjoy editing on wikipedia, it's very worthwhile.Best, --Ktlynch (talk) 16:38, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Have you dropped out?
Hi Valentta,

I'm leaving you a message here so you'll get it if you log in again. Since you haven't responded to my emails, nor edited in over a month I'm going to assume you're no longer active on wikipedia. Maybe you changed classes, but it would have been nice to know. If you decide to come back please let me know and I'll be happy to help however I can. Best wishes, --Ktlynch (talk) 10:01, 2 March 2011 (UTC)