User talk:VinceH

Hi Vince:

I really do want to wish you a most sincere welcome to Wikipedia. It's a wonderful, even if sometimes addictive, thing to work on. I apologize if I have a tendency to WP:BITE the newbies slightly. Enough anons make destructive, or at least bad, edits that I might get overprotective of the few pages that I monitor relatively closely (Tattoo is one of them, more or less by accident... I know a little, and have a few, but I don't claim any special expertise). FWIW, it's probably best to have editors on any given page who care more about the article than the topic.

At the same time, even the best new editors usually come in with a bit too much sense of mission, often with a desire to radically re-do some article(s) they feel a special attachment to. That can sometimes step on toes of existing editors who have worked on articles. As a rule, I believe it's good to start out with smaller and incremental changes to get your "land legs" about WP editing. You have some good stuff to add, certainly; but keep in mind that once you add it, it's no longer your words, but those of the community/project as a whole (most of the words I try to maintain, on Tattoo or anywhere else, are not ones I wrote, but what I perceive as consensus). Adding a Leviticus section seems quite helpful, in general, I just think the tone needs to be tweaked a bit. And now that we pretty much have the WP:copyvio concern worked out, I think much of your suggestion about the post-Cook renewed popularity in Europe will help improve the article).

All the best, Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 05:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)