User talk:Storm Horizon
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[edit] Welcome to the Kindness Campaign!
[edit] Thanks for the welcome, howeverI created this account User:Junglecat. as a doppelganger. I discovered what a doppelganger account was by accident with editing my signature appearance in the user prefs. Thanks anyway..... JungleCat
[edit] Barnstar
[edit] AdoptionYAY! Thank you for adopting me - so what's next? Can you give me a good direction as to what I should do next? I'm not really an expert in anything, but I'm of reasonable intelligence and have a pretty good command of the English language....again, thanks! NinzEliza 17:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC) [edit] ThanksThanks for the barnstar! Tarret 01:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you for adopting meIn response to your message re adopting me: I asked to be adopted because I felt that it would be beneficial to have a more experienced user who can answer complex questions for me concerning some of the finer points of editing here. So, what I am really looking for is a contact person who I can go to for advice from time to time. If you are agreeable to that idea, then please let me know. I don't anticipate bombarding you with tons of questions, rather only those intricate situations that don't seem to be addressed easily in the FAQ's found here. Thank you. Labyrinth13 18:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC) [edit] My AdoptionHi Storm, I see you've witnessed my name change. It really disturbs me because I read my user name, and all responses that directly addressed me, as NinaEliza for at least week before I saw NinzEliza. I seriously thought someone messed with my account, and I still have a little doubt. In any case.... I'm happy to be adopted, but I guess I was expecting something more along the lines of an apprenticeship. I'm truly paralyzed, yet I would desperately want to be productive here. I joined Wikipedia after a few days of reading articles on whatever came to mind, and then subsequently reading the discussion pages of those articles. I just liked the general idea and vibe. I came to really respect Wikipedia's various policies, and I wanted to be a part of the community as much as I wanted to contribute to the project. This is a little off topic, but Wikipedia first came to my FULL attention when I found out a former high school classmate had died. I found this out after looking up my alumni website (on a lark - the last time I did was about 6 years ago). The newsletter didn't say HOW she had died, and I wanted to know because I was really shocked. Since I knew she had written a book, I googled her for more information. Instead of finding a tiny news article (which is what I expected), I found her entry in Wikipedia, which is both incredibly detailed and incredibly neutral as to the cause of her death. I was deeply and personally affected by her entry, and I still am (Her name is Iris Chang, and I encourage you and everyone else to read about her). Once I actually got to the community portal, however, I was (and remain) thoroughly overwhelmed as to the sheer number of things to do. Furthermore, every "thing to do" has a HUGE list attached to it. In addition, when I started to wander around, I stumbled on to the RFC page. I read a couple of the RFC articles and discussion pages, and saw the "problems" I thought could just "solve" by posting a carefully crafted third party response. What I quickly found out is that these opposing positions are deeply entrenched, and the proponents of these positions are intensely opposed to one another to the point of near (or outright) hatred. I remain attached to the articles I've responded to, but all the arguments LITERALLY start to hurt my head. When I say that my head hurts, I mean that EVERY SINGLE NIGHT I'm on Wikipedia, my head starts to hurt after about a half an hour and after two hours my head hurts so much I can barely think. I don't know if it's due to some organic problem unrelated to Wikipedia, but I played poker for hours, sometimes ALL DAY, before Wikipedia without a problem. I might not be cut out for this after all, which really bums me out. I've tried copyediting, but outside of a teensy article on the band B5, I havent' completed any one article. In every other article I eventually come across a line or a parapragh that's either so jumbled that I need some knowledge on the subject, or I find some kind of "sticky wicket" phrase or sentence or paragraph that I don't want to change because I'm afraid I'll piss someone off. I just want a niche, a place somewhere on Wikipedia that I can feel I'm having a positive effect on. A place where I can make some kind of measureable progress. I also really want that niche to include at least one or two editors that I can communicate with fairly frequently. I feel so left out and alone on Wikipedia right now. I didn't even get a welcome, and I thought that was a bot or something. Well, now I'm just whining. I seem to have spilled out my guts to you. I don't even know what I'm asking for anymore. I was just hoping when I signed up for adoption that I would get an assignment or something. I guess I don't work very well without specific tasks. Anyway, I feel better just getting this out, if anything. I appreciate you having read this far. Sincerely, NinaEliza 07:18, 15 November 2006 (UTC) [edit] Much AppreciatedHi Storm Horizon, Many, many, excellent points. It IS important to stay hydrated - I'm usually telling that to other people! :) Your comment about the color of the Wikipedia's pages was an epiphany - you're so right! But check this out - you can change the color (at least a little bit). When I read that I went to preferences and found out you could pick different "skins" for Wikipedia. If you pick "classic blue", it doesn't actually turn the page blue but a soft beige. The only downer is that it rearranges your user buttons and puts them in the column on the right instead of at the top right-hand of the page. I haven't been here that long so I can deal - it's worth it! I feel so much better! I signed up for suggest bot and my first list came today - I'm STOKED! Because I now have a short, do-able list of things, I think I'll take your advice and just let the RFC articles go for now. I'm still heavily invested in the Indian Buddhist Movement page, but it's not going anywhere and I think I'm going to buy a couple of books that will help me on that before I go back. I can't join Esperanza because I don't have 1000 edits. However, I COULD join the kindness campaign - so I did! I also found out I could join Concordia - so I did! These are two concepts that are very important to me - thanks for pointing these organizations out! I think I'm pretty good to go right now. I'm going to get to work on my suggest bot articles, with a goal of completing them before the next suggest-bot comes. I've got a lot to do! I'll be in touch, and I'll probably have some technical questions in the coming days. Thanks so much for your help! NinaEliza 05:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC) |
