Skyleaf

Welcome!

Hello, Skyleaf, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 19:09, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your comments, which you added in discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. Please note that, on Wikipedia, consensus is determined by discussion, not voting, and it is the quality of the arguments that counts, not the number of people supporting a position, so you may wish to edit your comment to include a rationale for your !vote. We hope that you decide to stay and contribute even more. Thank you! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 19:08, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. Over the last few days I have been made more aware of how surveys are handled on Wikipedia by reading through the discussions. While I used to the word "vote" in my discussions on the survey, I did so knowing it wasn't quite the right word, but could not think of a better choice. While I would like to go back and add a rationale to my position (something that I should have done in the first place. I'll blame my foggy head at the time), the page is currently temporarily locked for newer members such as myself to avoid a flood of "votes." I'll have to wait until the lock is lifted or I can find enough places that need edits I'm capable of doing (and wait the four days from account creation) to bring myself up to contributor status. Skyleaf (talk) 20:16, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

No worries. I wouldn't fret too much over the use of the term "vote"; usually editors use the term "!vote" when referring to a stance on a particular Wikipedia issue, though I think that the terminological distinction is a bit silly. The important thing is that Wikipedia wants reasons to accompany a vote/!vote, which you seem to be fully aware of now, though I'm sorry that you got locked out of the discussion until your account is autoconfirmed (I posted this notice largely in hopes that you would be able to edit your comment on the survey to include a rationale, but the decision to semi-protect the page has made that difficult for the moment). I just hope you'll stick around and that the MOS survey hasn't scared you off or anything. We need more socially conscious Wikipedia editors, to be sure! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 21:02, 26 August 2013 (UTC)