Thanks to those who were nice to me while I was having a brief burst of wiki-frustration! Elemimele (talk) 12:47, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
General stuff
If you've found yourself here, it's probably because you've seen something I've done on Wikipedia and think it's particularly daft. If so, please tell me! I am an inexperienced Wikipedia editor who will no doubt make mistakes. I've used WP for ages, and felt it was pay-back time, time to start contributing to the fund of information that has been so useful. In "real life" I am an analytical chemist. I will probably be editing pages relating to my professional subjects or my hobbies, because those are the ones where I'm least likely to mess up. I have little interest in living people (that sounds bad, doesn't it?), whose WP biographies in any case cause far too much stress and friction for my tastes.
My Encyclopaedia-philosophy is that although WP is not a text-book, Encyclopaedias are educational. And although accuracy and neutrality are vital, Encyclopaedias should also be interesting and accessible. If an article is accurate, but written in such a way that it can only be understood by an expert who already knows what it is trying to say, then it has failed. So I'm here to contribute accurate stuff that an average person with average education will find enlightening and informative. Tell me when I fail!
I also believe a little kindness goes a long way, and WP's assumption of good faith is a beautiful thing. Elemimele (talk) 15:34, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
When things happened
27 December 2021: finally turned on Twinkle. CSD and AfD logging is ON. Don't expect any record of my activities before today!
My crib links to helpful resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula
A typical use of the Google books reference-making tool: https://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.de%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DosAYjwoANBQC%26pg%3DPA839%26q%3DFreiburg%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DFreiburg%26f%3Dfalse
Template for obvious spam/commercial use of user-pages etc. Template:db-g11 (or AIV)
Interlanguage links: Jenjira Mix Haxholm , Mix Haxholm