User talk:InterestingTime

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Happy editing! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:17, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Developing an article

If you see shortcomings in an article, feel free to go ahead and fix it, so long as you keep in mind one important principle:

wp:no original research: everything you add must be supported by evidence. See wp:citing sources (which can be mind blowing in its complexity. It is enough for now to understand the major principles and then look at the most useful templates that make it practical, like {{cite news}}, {{cite web}}, {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}}).

That principle actually means that in reality you may have to do a lot of research in the sense of background reading and taking note of references that you will be able to use. What you can't do is publish a new theory or make a leap of logic from your own assessment of the sources (wp:synthesis).

So congratulations! You just volunteered to develop Open borders because it does indeed suffer from the issues you diagnose. Just be careful to avoid overdoing it to the extent of creating a wp:fork of the generic Border article. Seriously though, it is a controversial topic to pick for your first big edit marathon so maybe you might be wise to get some practice on a lower profile topic. It is depressing when another editor undoes a contribution that you spent hours working on.

Welcome again to Wikipedia! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:17, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you have been here a while but nobody welcomed you. Looks like you could start work straight away. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:21, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]