User talk:Doctorbass00

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Doctorbass00, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Candle. 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)
Manual of Style

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! John Vandenberg ^(chat) 04:09, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks![edit]

Thanks John for your warm welcome! I'm still working everything out. At the moment I'm studying hard for exams, but will have a lot of free time coming up in a few months (as long as I pass haha). {{help me-helper}} Is there somewhere I can find articles that need attention if I'm at a loose end? Thanks again. Doctorbass00 (talk) 13:51, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are many categories that contain pages needing attention - category:wikify is just one example. Mdann52 (talk) 15:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, let me throw out a few examples. As Mdann suggests first, there are a number of "categories" of articles that editors have marked for issues to be resolved, the backlog overview is probably pretty intimidating, but has a number of places where, if it's your style, you can just dig in. Note that there are many projects set up by editors to work more collaboratively on some of those specific backlogs. If you enjoy copyediting, for example, there's Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors, and so on. A lot of those are sort of repetitive tasks (which I personally enjoy), but perhaps even more importantly, there's still a lot of good writing to be done. If there's a topic area you have an interest in, there's likely to be a Wikiproject somewhere that can probably point you at articles that could use expansion, writing or rewriting to good effect. Any ideas of what you might enjoy working on? --j⚛e decker ^talk 15:53, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck with your exams! Let me know when you have time and want to get started. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Melanesia is a good place to start. Category:Melanesia_articles_needing_attention lists two articles needing work. Category:Stub-Class_Melanesia_articles has 1300 articles which are very short so adding a single sentence is a big improvement to the article. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 00:55, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]