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I saw your note about starting here. No one knows who you say you are, for all other editors know - you are a 7-year old from Timbuktu. So drop the line that you know what you are doing - just prove your value by good editing. Here's my advice: (1) Avoid editing in areas closely overlapping with your research interests, too much temptation to rewrite history. (2) Try to cite books and reviews, not journals. We are not Chem Reviews - we are more like the old timey encylopedias - only with update-able and with innumerable pages. (3) Minimize attributions to people and institutions, pettiness creeps in fast. (4) Aim for broad topics where the basic science is poorly described. This is the material where readers want help. (5) Make little edits not big ones. Finally, have fun and ignore advice you dont like.--Smokefoot (talk) 12:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
