User talk:Geomean

Welcome!

Hello, Geomean, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 02:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wayne Howard

Hi, Geomean. Welcome to Wikipedia. I guess you haven't had a chance yet to read up on the policies and guidelines in the links above. It's very important that everyone who wants to edit Wikipedia familiarize themselves with these policies and guidelines. One of the most central of these is the policy of no original research. This means that everything in Wikipedia is supposed to be footnoted or otherwise referenced to a published or online reputable source. Personal knowledge of someone can never used be unless it appears in a book, magazine or newspaper article or a journalistic or academic online source.

Please read the policies that are bluelinked here. I'm afraid if anyone inserts edits based on ostensible personal knowledge, those edits can be immediately removed, and if anyone persists in restoring such original-research edits, such editors may be blocked by an admin for various amounts of time.

Thanks for understanding, please read up on the policies, and have a good and productive time on Wikipedia! --Tenebrae (talk) 01:08, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]