JeshuaKJohn

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Hello, JeshuaKJohn, 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) 19:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Please take care to ensure that your edit summaries really do indicate what your edits do. For example it is not helpful to give "spelling" as a summary for an edit which actually replaces words with other words, rather than just changing the spelling of existing words. Breaking sticks (talk) 22:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Homelessness_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area#Prevalence_and_Visibility_by_City

Hi - I reverted your additions to this section for a few reasons:

1. The Data USA doesn't really guarantee its information, so it's not the best place to pull data from - it'd be best to pull it directly from US Census data. You can also take information from the respective articles for the cities and even use the sentences themselves as long as you attribute it in your edit summary.
2. Be careful of using quotes like this since this runs kind of close to a copyright issue since it's harder to justify it as fair use. With something like this you can actually borrow the information about this from the articles about the specific cities, from their demographics section. As mentioned above, as long as you attribute this in the edit summary you can reuse content from other articles.
3. This is too general and doesn't really show where it ties in to homelessness. Demographics about income and poverty levels do play into homelessness, but the demographics by themselves don't really say anything about this, so you also need to find some information about how these pertain to homelessness. Make sure that you avoid original research, which are claims and research that you create based on content that doesn't explicitly make these claims.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:07, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

An extended welcome

Hi JeshuaKJohn. Welcome to Wikipedia. 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.

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.

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) 20:59, 10 September 2018 (UTC)