User talk:Geirsole

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Geirsole, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. Here are some pages that 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, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! - Ahunt (talk) 20:53, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2018[edit]

Please refrain from using talk pages such as Talk:Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 for general discussion of the topic or other unrelated topics. They are for discussion related to improving the article in specific ways, based on reliable sources and the project policies and guidelines; they are not for use as a forum or chat room. See here for more information. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 17:52, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

It was my belief that I couldn't contribute to anything on the page directly, as the editors in power would just revert/delete. So, I asked a few relevant question on the TalkPage as to see if I could contribute to the page on a more meta-level. But, it turned out there was no room for question, case closed, questioned denied :) Gsoler (talk) 09:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can contribute directly on the page, as long as what you're contributing is reliably-sourced and you insert it in a way that is helpful to others' understanding of the subject. Other editors have the same power as you; they can revert if they see the information as being inaccurately or misleadingly inserted. At that point, the two of you have a disagreement, which you take to the talk page. But even on the talk page, you need those reliable sources or you aren't going to get anywhere. It can't be your own opinions or suspicions. Your new information must be being discussed, preferably in mainstream media. It can be left-leaning media, like MSNBC, or it can be right-leaning media, like Fox News, but it has to be a source that other agree is known to check their facts and aim to get them right. You need to bring the evidence for that source -- a link to a new story others can go check out to see if they agree it's reliable and with your interpretation of what is being said. If you just come into the talk page with your own suspicions and opinions, you're going to get shut down as being disruptive to the process. valereee (talk) 10:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gsoler pinging your other account until you figure out which one you're going to use

What is pinging? Geirsole (talk) 11:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's that little template I used in curly brackets -- it sends a message to you to let you know someone has mentioned you on a page. I just wanted to make sure that whichever account you were using, you'd see my response. valereee (talk) 12:19, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]