User talk:Altalaya

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Altalaya, good luck, and have fun. --Abce2 (talk) 22:05, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Portals need "project suggestions boxes"

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Feature requests

Hello,

I am a brand squeaky new Wiki-person. I've made very good use of Wikipedia articles over the years, using it daily - but I have never looked beyond an article's front page until just the other day. In the course of an ongoing research project I looked up an article on tigers, one I had been to before, and found it much changed and not at all in keeping with what I thought was up-to-date and accurate information.

I made it through the sign up process and stumbled onto the article's discussion page - and successfully made a couple of entries there as I didn't want to risk messing around on a prominent page. I later found that there were systemic problems with a few related articles, and then in the course of thinking about how to fix them thought that maybe there were some other related articles that it would be nice to see developed. Reading further I found that at least one of the pages I couldn't edit even if I wanted to.

So I stumbled over to the "Cats Project" page in hopes of contacting some sage Wiki-editor with an interest in cat topics... nothing there. Where do I go? Who can I go to in this great maze of project workflow people and organizers? Amongst these giants, I feel like a small mouse indeed.

So where do I go to suggest changes to a set of articles? How can I as a newbie stand up and say, newbie I may be but here is an idea for a project - or in my case: there are a set of basic problems with these prominent articles and someone needs to form an experienced task force to completely go through a set of pages and repost them (probably in a protected status).

Shouldn't there be a prominent place somewhere on front page of the cat project portal labeled - "project suggestions box"?

Anyway, that's my suggestion (Altalaya (talk) 02:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC))

Hello Altalaya, welcome to Wikipedia. I can see from where you posted this message that you are a bit lost. From what I gather, you seem interested in improving feline-related articles. If I were you I would try asking on the WikipProject Cats talk page. If you are ever confused about anything, try asking for help at the New contributors' help page. Hope this helped! Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 03:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like you're getting good advice

I'm glad Headbomb was able to help because I was having trouble thinking of a concrete suggestion. From what I have seen of the various Wikiprojects, you should find many kindred spirits. If there is anything else I can do, please let me know. Celestra (talk) 03:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)