User talk:TacoDelRio

Although some prefer welcoming newcomers with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.

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Questions Iron Mountain (Los Angeles County)

Hi and welcome. I noticed your edits to the San Gabriel Mountains article and your questions at Talk:Iron Mountain.

I belong to WikiProject Mountains. If you have a special love for mountains and are willing to help edit articles about mountains then you are welcome to join the project. I seems that right now there are not many active participants so any help would be appreciated. It's not a very organized project. It seems we have personal interests and mostly go our own way but discussion and questions are always welcome on our talk page.

You can find answers to many of the questions newcomers have by following the links above. If you reach a dead end, fell free to contact me on my talk page.

If you see some undocumented statement you know is just wrong then remove it and note your action in the edit summary. If you disagree with a documented statement it is probably best to note the controversy and document your information. Don't be discouraged if you get a few edits reverted. The most common reasons are:

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As far as route difficulty is concerned I think you can assume that readers know or can find out about the Yosemite Decimal System (at least for US and Canadian mountains). Words like hike, scramble and exposed are probably well understood especially if a link is provided. I think Mount Whitney is an example of a good article and good markup. There is also a nice article about the San Gabriel Mountains. In general write for a general audience. If there is something very interesting, that requires special knowledge on the part of the reader, then mention it without great detail. Assume that if the reader is interested they can find out more somewhere else. Note interesting reading in the reference section of provide an external link.

We usually try to maintain an encyclopedic style so unnecessary detail is best avoided. An article should not read like a travel guild. Sections on geology, hydrology, biology, etc. are some areas that can be covered.

In general be bold and learn from your mistakes. These are my opinions and consensus my vary. –droll [chat] 20:36, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

PS. Don't worry too much about HTML. We mostly use Wiki markup. I got my CS degree back in the 80s and promptly forgot most of it. You can learn by looking at other peoples edits. Mostly, as I see you've noticed, you can just type. I used to hang around in the San Bernardino Mountains. Saw some awful accidents and drove like a nut when I could. –droll [chat] 23:12, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Droll. Is this how I reply to a message? Hopefully this goes through.

Cheers

TacoDelRio 20:04, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Yep, thats good. Your talk page is on my watchlist right now so I'll notice any changes. If you want to reply to some one who is not watching then you should leave a note on their talk page. We usually use a colon as the first character on a new line to indent. This helps separate sections. This is wiki way of creating an HTML unordered list. It's funky but it works. Some folks are working on a better system but things seem stalled right now. –droll [chat] 22:54, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Arrighty, cool beans.

So, I felt I should add info to various pages, basically filling xxxxx page with as much info as possible regarding the subject. Some of the car pages have a wealth of information regarding basically everything about the car. Do you feel it would be bad to make a mountain page the same way?

TacoDelRio 03:26, 15 June 2010 (UTC)