Free Speech Wikipedian

Hello Free Speech Wikipedian! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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 someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name 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! Hipal (talk) 19:46, 30 September 2021 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

A lengthy welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn 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 in collaboration.

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.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to discuss the matter on the relevant talk page.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal (talk) 19:46, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Also, editors are also expected to focus on content and conduct themselves with civility. --Hipal (talk) 00:52, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Editing a User's Talk Page

Have you ever noticed that Wikipedia talk pages have the oldest discussions at the top and the newest discussions at the bottom?

Also, have you ever noticed that there is a New Section tab at the top of a talk page that you should use to add a new section (and it adds it at the bottom)?

Also, if you start to edit a user's talk page, and a long set of instructions appears, do you think it would be useful to read the instructions?

I will read your post within 24 hours. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:05, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, isn't one of the dicta at Wikipedia to be patient with newcomers? You've clearly been with Wikipedia a long time, and I'm sure that I would be jaded too if I had toiled away in the Wikipedia mines for years, but would you please do me the courtesy of passing this case along to someone who seems to give a shit? Free Speech Wikipedian (talk) 15:48, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy notice - Edit warring

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Heterodox Academy. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. --Hipal (talk) 15:54, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Hipal, would you please desist with the faux courtesy? An editor named "Crossroads" partially reverted the edits just as I was planning to file a dispute, so I don't know what you're on about. If anyone is engaged in an edit war, it is you and Aquillion, as a cursory glance at the page's version history will show. Free Speech Wikipedian (talk) 16:24, 19 October 2021 (UTC)