User talk:Weibelgl

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Hello, Weibelgl, 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·ʇuoɔ) WER 17:32, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi again. Even though most of us Wikipedians are concerned about conflict of interest, you aren't limited in how you contribute. It's just harder to be neutral and encyclopedic when you're closely involved in something. So...

First, create your userpage with a notice about your COI. Since I know and have worked with them, look at the userpages of User:Digitaleffie and User:DinaHerbert for examples of declaring COI. Say as little or as much about yourself as you want within your comfort zone. Change employee to volunteer, unpaid director or whatever is appropriate if you're not an employee. Use the Preview button below the editing box to see how your work will look, then add a short summary of your edit and click Save. Click on my name in my signature to see my userpage. Click on edit to see all of the code I used to make my page look the way it does.

Now the hard but interesting work. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Original research is prohibited even if what you write is accurate. Everything in our encyclopedia has to be verifiable in a reliable source, preferably one that is independent of the subject of the article. So....

Begin by finding sources about the museum. The museum's website says that it moved to its permanent location in 2002. Surely that was noted in a local newspaper or a local section of a regional paper. Was an article written on the tenth anniversary? Was the museum featured in a radio or TV broadcast where you can obtain a transcript? The museum was founded in 1985 so some of the founders are likely elderly by now. If they haven't been interviewed about their involvement, now is the time to record their memories. A doctoral or masters thesis can be a reliable source. Is there a journalism or history student in need of a project? Details about hours of operation, collections and exhibits can come from the museum's website but independent sources are needed to establish the museum's notability. Mentions in travel guides or special event sections of newspapers don't count; the write-up has to be in-depth about the museum.

Learn about Wikipedia when you need a break from searching for sources. Scan over Wikipedia articles about other museums. Go over to WikiProject Museums and have a look around. Then read through their guideline for the structure of museum articles. That should be your guide. Ready?

I copied the existing article and added some section headings suggested by the WikiProject Museums guidelines and started a draft of the revised and expanded article at Draft:The Children's Museum (Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania). Please work on the draft rather than the existing article. That will make it easier to comply with the Creative Commons Attribution copyright; the work by the three editors who started the existing article must be attributed. That will be easier done if you learn wiki-code on the draft and then move the draft to mainspace. We will eventually change the existing article into a WP:REDIRECT to the revised and expanded article while maintaining the edit history and talk page.

Now be bold. Go to the draft page {just click on the blue link to it or right-click and open in a new tab or window), click on any of the blue (edit) buttons and start writing. Use the preview button to see how it looks, then write a short summary and then click the Save button.  Ah, but remember verifiability.  You need to cite the source of what you wrote.  Go to WP:REFB, Referencing for beginners.  Scan the text and watch the videos.  You'll be competent at adding references in 20 minutes.

Your talk page and the draft are on my watchlist. Leave questions here and I'll be along to help out within a day or so. If you want a quick answer, the Teahouse always has helpful people around. For now, take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 04:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)