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 | This page in a nutshell: Don't be too good at editing wikipedia at first |
New to wikipedia? Make sure you don't read up on any wikipedia policies. Especially make sure that you don't find out anything about wikipedia processes. Definitely don't read, for instance, the criteria for speedy deletion. Or read about our process for deleting controversial articles at articles for deletion. Making lots of mistakes is expected of a new user. In fact, making good edits is clearly discouraged. If you don't make mistakes, you must clearly be a sockpuppet. Assume good faith is not a wikipedia policy. No, we assume by default all of our new editors are vandals or sockpuppets. You can't be considered a decent wikipedian until you've written 5 DYKs and a featured article or good article. Just don't write one in your first few hundred edits, because you're not allowed to be competent yet.
Things you shouldn't do until you have at least 100 edits edit
- Tag a page for speedy deletion
- Use a tool like twinkle or HotCat
- Use an edit summary
- Categorize an article
Things you shouldn't do until you have at least 500 edits edit
- Comment on an AfD
- Bring a matter to ANI
- Let's be realistic, don't comment on anything on wikipedia space, it's a huge secret that only the elite guild of oligarchical sysops (EGOS) know about
things you shouldn't do until you have at least 2000 edits edit
- Acknowledge the existence of the arbitration committee.