User talk:Amitc008

Welcome!

Hello, Amitc008, 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.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Note

Hi Amitc008, you don't seem to have learned the fundamental ideas of Wikipedia in your training via your class.

Anybody can edit - Wikipedia is radically open that way, but nobody can edit however they want to - everybody has to follow the policies and guidelines that the community itself has created. Another way to say that is that WP has a fundamental libertarian ethos - we want people to be bold and contribute, but there is also a communitarian ethos that prevents uncontrolled growth (which is just cancer) as well as chaos, which wastes everyone's time. We work out the tension between those two by talking to one another. That is how WP works.

I wrote a brief overview of all that here: User:Jytdog/How.

You are getting too discouraged, too quickly. Please understand that many new editors' contributions are not OK; please listen to what others are saying and learn and adapt. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 19:58, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

cut/pasted comment here, that was left at my TP in these diffs, to keep discussion together Jytdog (talk) 22:00, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Hey there, thanks for your feedback. I'm trying to be a contributor like you, but maybe I don't reach your expectations. I did do the training's, but it didn't all come clear to me. I've spent nearly four months studying EI, and I think you might have not understood what the images meant to the concept. But that's alright there down now anyway, so it really doesn't matter anymore..Amitc008 (talk) 21:56, 14 May 2018 (UTC)68.113.163.239 (talk) 21:55, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Everybody stumbles a bit at the beginning. My note above is just trying to help you relax and not worry about your efforts to post a picture failing so far. The discussion at Talk:Emotional_intelligence#Images is entirely typical of discussions of lead images. People often disagree, and we just talk through it, to see if we can find some consensus. This is how Wikipedia works. Jytdog (talk) 22:03, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

I feel like I am struggling with the HTML & CSS-like formatting. All of my classmates are struggling in the same way. But since my image was already taken down, I am not sure that having a discussion will get it back up. I've taken two separate images now and edited them using adobe software, however I am starting to get discouraged because of how easy it has been to get rejected. I also am confused how I am confused as to how i'm allowed to put Goleman as a picture. I thought they had to be either our own photos or stock photos. I edited my own images, because I wanted to show my professor that I cared about the topic. And, thanks for your reply.Amitc008 (talk) 00:38, 15 May 2018 (UTC)