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Thank you for your help on Six!

Hello, I just wanted to thank you for your help on Six - especially helping towards cleaning up the page a little bit. I was a bit nervous myself since it seems some newer editors were trying to turn it into something that more resembled a fan page rather than something more encyclopedic. Anyways, I will be helping out on the article as much as I can but I just wanted to thank you! ChrisWilliam1995 (talk) 03:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Octopusplushie! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Need some ideas of what kind of things need doing? Try the Task Center.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! — SamX [talk · contribs] 04:59, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

Hey! :) I'm really glad to see that you're new here and enthusiastic about contributing. I've reverted your recent closure of an ANI thread. In this particular case, the user was blocked from article space for a lack of communication. The ANI thread is a way for them to engage and address the concerns of other editors, so it should stay open. It'll get automatically archived by a bot if there aren't any comments in it for 72 hours, so there's really no reason to close it.

As a more general note, I strongly recommend that you, as a new editor, stay away from ANI. It's where people go to complain about other editors, and it can be a very nasty place sometimes. It's also very heavily patrolled by longtime users with a great deal of experience in dispute resolution and most people who post there are seeking the attention of administrators, so doing "clerical" work there really isn't helpful or necessary. I've been here for over ten years and I've made over 13,000 edits, but I rarely comment there.

There are plenty of other things you can do, though. Wikipedia always needs more volunteers and it's great to see new editors showing up and pitching in. I suggest checking out some of the links in the welcome message I left you, especially the Teahouse and the Task Center. Wikipedia also has an unofficial Discord server if you use that platform. If you're interested in editing a specific topic you can check out the WikiProject dedicated to that topic, although a lot of them aren't very active. I'm also happy to answer any questions you might have. Happy editing :) — SamX [talk · contribs] 05:17, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind reply! Closing the thread was probably not my wisest choice. I'll keep your feedback in mind. Probably gonna stick to WP:ITN/C and editing articles. For five more minutes...^{it's just a single vice} 17:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not a big deal; I certainly made my fair share of mistakes as a new editor :) ITN can also be a pretty dysfunctional place. It doesn't really have any objective criteria for inclusion, and long-running unresolvable disagreements over what is and isn't "newsworthy" have spun out into quite a few noticeboard threads and resulted in several editors being placed under various restrictions. There was a discussion at the village pump fairly recently about abolishing it altogether, which I'd support if someone cooked up a serious proposal to do so. With that said, it's still a pretty central part of the project and it could certainly use some fresh perspectives such as yours. I'm not trying to gatekeep ITN or otherwise dissuade you from contributing there—quite the opposite, actually—but I figured you'd want to be aware of its baggage if you weren't already. — SamX [talk · contribs] 03:24, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]