Anythingapplied

Hello, Anythingapplied! 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 {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! DuncanHill (talk) 15:00, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Reply Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism 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 • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

{{helpme}} Hello. First of all, who are you, and how did you know I needed help? I assume you don't check my talk page everyday.

Secondly, if I have an issue with a rarely frequented page, obviously its discussion page is the place to put something like that. Do people get alerted to it? How would people ever know about my suggestion without checking the discussion page, which looks like no one ever visits?

For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:M.C._Burton,_Jr. has an empty discussion page, and the following statement in the article looks wrong to me: "On graduating from high school, Burton announced he was not interested in playing in the NBA" because it is right after his college section and it seems like something that would be announced after college, but not knowing anything about Burton I wouldn't make the change, rather just suggest that it might be wrong on the discussion page? Thanks Anythingapplied (talk) 13:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I frequently look at CAT:HELP. You used the {{helpme}} tag so your username was listed there.

People keep pages in their watchlist, so whenever an edit is made to a watchlisted page, it creeps up in the watchlist. If you post on that talk page and somebody has it watchlisted, he/she might reply. You can also use the {{editsemiprotected}} tag to request changes in semi-protected articles (until you get autoconfirmed yourself you are already autoconfirmed). Such requests are listed at CAT:ESP. –Capricorn42 (talk) 14:02, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

How did you know I was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Autoconfirmed ? (what is a better way to link to that?)

Also, is there a test ground to try Wikipedias more advanced features? Like how would I create a category? Anythingapplied (talk) 14:35, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Anyone with an account 4 days old and at least 10 edits automatically receives autoconfirmation :)
Better way to link is to use this syntax [[Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Autoconfirmed]] , it will produce this link:Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Autoconfirmed
Also [[Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Autoconfirmed|autoconfirmed]] will produce autoconfirmed
There is a test wiki - you are allowed to do anything you want there except posting libel. But there's no need to go there in order to learn using wikipedia. You can learn just by doing stuff right here. See Help pages for details and start editing; even if you make a mistake somebody will come along and fix it. –Capricorn42 (talk) 14:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply