Hello, Teh Yomangani, and welcome to Wikipedia. We definitely value new users like you. A priori. But not so much once you start messing with the articles, so watch out for that. Please find attached an executive summary of our 4,800-page 6-volume set on Wikipedia and its policies. The appendix on what "Wikipedia is not" is available separately.
- Please sign your name to messages written on talk pages. Speaking of which, your name implies that you use Leet-speak, and this may infringe on the copyright or moral intellectual property rights of that community. Please change your name forthwith; this account will be blocked within 24 hours. Guidelines for user names include not suggesting an affiliation with a company or organization, a robot, a trademark, another user, identifiable personal information of anyone including you, or a funny personal trait or characteristic. Other than that, be creative.
- When participating in discussions that appear to be votes, you are welcome to vote, and even to use bold text, but it is imperative that you disclaim that you are in fact voting. You will look more intellectual this way.
- The material that you add to Wikipedia should be verifiable. If you are an expert, please defer to people who can pull a sentence from Google Books on the subject of your expertise and put a reference mark after it. Defer even more to people that demand a citation from you using a template within the text. (It is hard work, demanding citations.) This is for the benefit of our readers, who often enjoy the laborious hobby of confirming the most non-essential information that they find on Wikipedia in other reliable sources, at the same time as they rarely read beyond the infobox. No, our assumptions about what readers want are not at all contradictory.
- Here on Wikipedia, we deal in "facts". And it is a fact that you will have a long and fruitful career as a Wikipedian if you have the courage of a castrated Hercules and the patience of a neutral saint! Sincerely, Riggr Mortis (talk) 18:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)