User talk:Ggealey

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Ggealey! Thank you for your contributions. I am Liz and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Ggealey, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy notice

Since you're a new editor and might not know offhand to check the talk pages of articles, I'm writing to let you know of a comment I've posted at Talk:Grace Gealey. I hope you have a chance to read it, and please: Read also the above-cited page "The five pillars of Wikipedia." The core policy of source citations is central to the whole existence of Wikipedia.

I'll be happy to work with you, but I ask that you please first read and understand at the very least this one core policy. Thanks. --Tenebrae (talk) 20:11, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Some things:

The article about you is not “your personal page”. It is Wikipedia’s page, and thus bound by WIkipedia’s policies.
Any statement that is not as obvious as “The sky is blue” must be verified by a reliable source—especially if someone challenges it.
- While you are, of course, a reliable source of information about yourself, we would need to cite such information from your blog or Twitter or something; you can’t just enter it directly from your own head. That applies to any article about anything.
Wikipedia’s standard is verifiability, not truth. That means that if everyone said the Earth was flat, Wikipedia would have to report that the Earth was flat, unless we could find sources claiming otherwise. If reliable sources claim that a person was born in the Cayman Islands, we have to report that that person was born in the Cayman Islands, unless we can find sources claiming otherwise.
Generally, secondary sources (sources that gather and repeat information, such as news media) are preferred to primary sources (sources that report information about themselves, such as autobiographies).
- In this case, I’ve edited our article about you to include two articles from two other websites, verifying your claim that you were born in Butler.
Editing encyclopedic information about yourself is generally discouraged. I mean you can, but with a bunch of caveats and scrutiny. It’s an integrity thing.

Sorry for all this. You get to know this stuff if you stick around long enough. Which I hope you do! And I strongly encourage you to edit other articles in your areas of interest, rather than just your own. And be sure to read WP:Citing sources so you’ll be able to prove things. Enjoy! —174.141.182.82 (talk) 21:38, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]