User talk:NerdGirl1988

Welcome!

A cup of warm tea to welcome you!

Hello, NerdGirl1988, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style
• Wikipedia Teahouse (a user-friendly help forum)

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! NtheP (talk) 19:42, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

• In response to the note on your user page, the best advice I can give you is to start by improving existing pages before looking to create any new ones. There are loads of underdeveloped articles that need attention, so join a WikiProject for an area that interests you, which will help give your energy the most impact! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. —Baldy Bill (talk) 16:58, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful advice. I haven't logged in for a long time (intimidated I guess) but I'm going to give it another go now and see if I can get the hang of being a Wikipedia editor. I appreciate your tips. NerdGirl1988 (talk) 01:11, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Hiyas NerdGirl1988,

I noticed the question you added to your userpage, and figured i could give you a basic response to the question raised. There are multiple methods to find article's you might enjoy to improve, so do not consider this list of suggestions exhaustive by any means.

• Wikiproject: It may be worth looking for a Wikiproject that deals with a topic you enjoy. Wikiprojects are loosely-connected groups of editors who enjoy editing a particular subject. Not every Wikiproject is equally well organized and active but most of them maintain a list of article's and a quality scale. There lists may be a good source for pages you may want to improve, and the wikiproject itself may be an excellent page to ask topic-specific question. Examples of well organized projects are Wikiproject Ships and Wikiproject Military History.
• Stub List: A Stub article is a small article that could use expansion, and is often only a handful of lines long. Stubs are sorted categorically which allows editors to find a small article they may want to improve with relative ease. An added bonus is that Stub article's tend to be relatively low traffic, which would allow you to improve one in relative peace.

There are also less structured methods to find pages to improve. Some people enjoy pressing the random page button till an interesting page comes up while others just read pages they are familiar with until they come across an article that needs improvement in some way. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:17, 20 June 2014 (UTC)