User talk:Vincentbdavisii

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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 ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Cynwolfe (talk) 14:56, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the warm introduction! I’m very much enjoying the thoughtful, educated discussions I’ve seen so far. It’s refreshing, and I’m learning a lot as well.

Thank you for informing me about the signature. If I understand correct, I’m supposed to place the four symbols at the end of a response like this to leave my signature? Or only in the cases of going to someone else’s talk page?

Thanks again!

(going to give it a try)

Vincentbdavisii (talk) 06:42, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Generally whenever you leave a comment you put a signature. If you are, however, using the new "Reply" feature it will substitute a signature automatically. Manual addition of a signature is only now necessary in source editing mode. Ifly6 (talk) 14:15, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I keep to the Old Ways. It seemed wrong for you not to have a welcome and a talk page started, though the template does seem out of date. I'm returning to WP after an absence of about a decade. Haven't even archived my old talk page because I don't remember how, though apparently I used to do so diligently.

By the way, I don't think you should feel prohibited from editing the Sertorius article. The conflict of interest doesn't lie in your having written historical fiction about Sertorius. The COI applies only to contributing content about your book series, in my opinion. The question is whether the potential effect on your creative process would be worth it! I generally stay away from articles on topics that I'm researching for outside projects or have written on academically in the past because I find it draining. I find I learn surprising incidental things if I dig into narrowly defined topics, while avoiding the tourist traffic, so to speak. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:07, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]