What's in a username? "A rose/prose/nose by any other name would smell as sweet", et-hetera-setterer.. I'm a veteran pc-user who recently got tired of spotting errors on Wikipedia and decided to learn how to correct them, right at the same moment as a) wanting to identify a particular early steam locomotive seen on the Fernsehapparat, and b) wanting a sudden break from endless charitable web designing, magazine editing and typesetting.
If and when my interest in Wikipedia's surprisingly effective capabilities increases further (or declines!), I'll doubtless amend my "lo-file" profile accordingly. Until then, this'll have to do!
The wikipedia community seem like a nice bunch of hundreds and thousands, post a talk note or enquiry and you almost always get a helpful reply with guidance etc. Almost always, but there are rare exceptions.
Talk:Mary Leakey#Edit request - Excavations info is shallow. I'd described a dozen good reasons why a Mary Leakey article was (on her highlighted centenary) pretty poor. Had one unhelpful (albeit humorous) reply, but my posting did inspire someone else to improve the article a great deal almost immediately. So - talk is good.
Right here for now. Apparently if I put a bracketed "My sandbox|<user name>" with my name substituted as a label, ie.
[[User:<user name>/sandbox|My sandbox]]
, it will enable others to view/check/comment on anything I test. Which might be a good thing, or might be a bad idea... not yet decided. But I'll put it here in readiness for potential use.
