User talk:LibertyandLinguistics

Welcome to Wikipedia editing!

Hello, LibertyandLinguistics, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 05:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 05:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

LibertyandLinguistics, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi LibertyandLinguistics! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! I JethroBT (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the Teahouse This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 16:17, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi, friend

I saw your question at the Teahouse. There are many articles that are fully fleshed out and others that deal with controversial topics that resemble dog fights. My first advice would be to avoid those. The next question relates to available sources: what do you you have access to? It is pretty important in this phase of Wikipedia that new content is extensively footnoted. Fortunately, there are TONS of free digital books available these days through sources like www.archive.org ... Then comes the matter of your own personal interests and preferences...

I'd suggest that if you're just starting out that you stick to something non-controversial and easily improvable. Think, for example: high schools (which are automatically notable and many articles about which are very bad), county histories, and even biographies about prominent local, territorial, and state politicians of the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Here's an example; I see from your IP address that you are from Maricopa County, Arizona or nearby. The early history of the county on this page is pretty much non-existent; there is no "Further Reading" section gathering other books available on the topic, which you can locate through OCLC "WorldCat" < http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch >. Type "Maricopa County history" for a keyword and you've got a list of books to choose from. See if you can find 3 or 5 or 8 or 20 helpful titles that would be of use to WP readers interested in doing more reading about Maricopa County and its history. I will get the section started where it should be an you can add to the list. After you find the obviously useful titles (which will cluster near the top of the WorldCat search), move on to the next county in Arizona and do the same thing there. Just a suggestion, but it would be helpful.

If you get tired of that sort of thing and want to pick a topic, dig up a pdf of a dusty old book or two on Arizona history or whatever and see if you can find a biography that can be improved. Again: stay away from the controversial topics as a newbie. Sheriff Joe? Immigration? Right out. Find something uncontroversial where you can work in peace... Drop me a line if you need any help, WP's software isn't the best — although the new software they are trying to foist on us is even worse, so count your blessings! —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR /// Carrite (talk) 19:08, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

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New discussions on Portal: Capitalism

Here, your input is appreciated. Lbertolotti (talk) 18:10, 21 May 2015 (UTC)