Esteebehar

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Hello, Esteebehar, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:44, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Shalor (Wiki Ed), how are the topics chosen?

I will not advise a new editor (however well-meaning) to touch the ones, he has chosen, with a 20-feet barge-pole. ∯WBG^converse 14:26, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you for letting me know, ∯WBG! I'll talk to the student about this! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:35, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Topic choices

Hi! I was tagged on this page in relation to your article topics, as the editor in question (WBG) is concerned about your topic choices. I have to share in their concern, which I will elaborate on below:

• Climate change is a controversial article on Wikipedia and one that's held under sanctions. What this means is that the article is prone to heavy discussion over what should be included in the article, how it should be phrased, and what sourcing would or should be used to back up the claims. It's heavily recommended that any potential edits should be discussed on the talk page prior to adding and checking the talk page history to see what has already been discussed is extremely important. Any reverted content should not be re-added until after it's discussed and there's a general consensus to re-add it. It's common for edits to be reverted and for talk page discussions to go on for quite a while.

• The article on crop circles has the same issues as the article on climate change, however this article comes with its own unique challenges since it can often be difficult to find sources that would be considered usable as this topic falls under fringe theory. While this isn't under sanctions it's important to write and source this just as carefully as an article that is, given the amount of discussion and controversy.

• Deepak Chopra's article is held under semi-protection, as are the articles on climate change and crop circles. This means that the articles cannot be edited by people who aren't signed into an account that is older than a week and has over 10 edits. The article is also held under sanctions because Chopra is involved with alternative medicine. This is one of the more difficult areas to edit on Wikipedia because this poses an issue with both sourcing and tone, as well as what should added and how it should be written. Depending on what is added, it will need to satisfy the criteria for reliable sources for medicine and health related articles, which can be very difficult to meet when it comes to alternative medicine depending on where you're looking and what you're looking to add.

• Nazca Lines falls under the same banner as crop circles to a certain degree. It's not as concerning a topic as the others, however I would definitely make sure that you post to the talk page here to discuss any potential edits, especially if you were to want to edit on any fringe theories surrounding the lines. While the article isn't completely exhaustive, it is more fleshed out than some other articles and can be more difficult to find more content to add.

• With the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, the issue here looks to be that the article is very extensive and as such, it would be far more difficult to find content to add here. Given that this particular murder is fairly well known due to the Hulu miniseries, it's going to be an article that is more heavily viewed and edited than other articles.

Ultimately these articles would all be far more difficult to edit than many other articles that are less developed and/or are not held under sanctions or otherwise considered a controversial topic. The article on the Nazca Lines could be doable depending on what you're planning on adding, though.

I would recommend looking into instead editing some of the stub articles out there. For example, Category:Crime_stubs has many different articles on crimes (including murders and child abuse) that could be expanded. Articles like the Sajama Lines and the Geoglyphs of Chug-Chug could be expanded as well. While this has an astronomical amount of categories and pages, you can look through Category:Stub categories to see if there's anything else you may want to edit as well.

Definitely reach out to me if you have any questions. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:31, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

An extended welcome

Hi Esteebehar. Welcome to Wikipedia. I strongly agree with Shalor (Wiki Ed)'s recommendations above. I suggest learning Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 16:58, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia! I note you have been assigned as the student editor for The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019. As a law student in India, the article has been on my to-do list for some time now. I recently also worked on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017. Both of them currently stand nominated as good articles. I would be looking forward to your edits. Please feel free to reach out to me for any help/resources/clarification. I would be very happy to help. I have kept a list of news reports criticising the act and legislative track reports handy. Tamravidhir (talk) 18:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Another welcome

I saw the notice you left at Talk:Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard that you're working on it as a student editor. Having created and done most of the work on the article, feel free to ask me (via my talk page) if there's anything you want to understand about it. Happy editing! Daniel Case (talk) 17:50, 26 September 2019 (UTC)