User talk:Smile234

Mentorship

Hello! For this semester, because I'm busy in real life, I've decided only to take two mentees. I already have two, so I'm sorry but I'm going to decline your request. If you look at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Online Ambassadors, there are many others looking for mentees to take on. I'm sorry! Feel free to ask me any questions you may have, but I'm unable to mentor you fully. – GorillaWarfare ^{talk • contribs} 21:11, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Heather! I, on the other hand, do have a space so I'm going to go ahead and add you next to my name on the list. How's your course progressing? Have you had your introductory help session? I see you've created your userpage and a couple of sandboxes (congratulations!), so I'm going to go ahead and add the official template to your userpage for you. It has some helpful links in case you ever get lost :) Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 18:58, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Signatures, etc.

Hey Heather, it's your mentor. I was just reviewing your edits: very excited to see you have started to think about what articles you might like to contribute to. Pretty sure they could all be good choices: maybe you'll even get the time to do the other two outside of your studies :) Just one thing, I see you're trying to sign your posts using four tildes in the edit summary box. Instead, to make them work properly, you need to include them directly at the end of your message. (You only need to do this when you're editing "talk"/"discussion" pages, like this one, or, say, Talk:Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.) It's not a big thing, but it's still something you'll want to do. Happy editing! - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 14:18, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it's me again, just dropping in to have a look at how you've been getting on. Your sandbox is looking very neat, and I'm impressed by your use of edit summaries. You're obviously getting the hang of editing. Over the next few weeks and in addition to my official mentoring duties, I'm going to try to give you the occasional tip on how to make your article one of Wikipedia's best. Don't worry, these are things that even regular Wikipedians forget to do sometimes! :)

My tips for this week are to not leave a space between punctuation and a reference - so not ". <ref" but ".<ref" and secondly to name your references, a process which is explained here. If you're unsure by what I mean with any of my tips, or if you need help with anything else, you can always contact me or another of the mentoring team. Regards and happy editing, - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 13:43, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Show preview

Welcome Heather, and thanks for your contributions! Hope you don't mind if I chime in with a couple tips. It will also be easier for you and your co-editors to collaborate on articles if, instead of making multiple consecutive edits in rapid succession on an article, you use the "Show preview" button to view your changes incrementally before finally saving the page once you're satisfied with your edits. And here's some helpful guidance on edit summaries. Cheers. Eric ^talk 20:32, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]