User talk:UalbBAM209

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --sheridanford (talk) 22:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, UalbBAM209, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

Handouts
Editing Wikipedia, a guide for student editors Choosing an article to edit Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
Additional Resources
You can find answers to many student questions in our FAQ.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:27, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

My Takeaways from Wikipedia Editing

For almost all of my education, I have been told that Wikipedia is not a trusted source. Even this semester, one of my Professors proceeded on a whole rant of how it should never be used in an educational environment. But, completing these training modules, and editing, I now see Wikipedia in an entirely different light. Authors are sometimes, normal people, and while "anyone" can edit a page, there are requirements that have to be met in order to do so. Legitimate sources are required to be credited for any outside information, each piece have to be completely unbiased, showing no indication of opinions, just facts. Even if biased, or opinionated information makes it onto a page, it is often taken down by other users going through. While Wikipedia may not be a webpage to source in academic writing, it is a wonderful source to search for simple information that you are looking to learn more about.

What I have also taken away from this assignment is to always do your own research. That can be taken literally, in regarding doing research for editing our articles, but also in the sense that you should always conduct further individial research on the topics we are taught in school. Like I said, for my whole life, I have been told to never use Wikipedia, but only just now am I finding out that it can actually prove to be a useful source. UalbBAM209 (talk) 00:49, 21 November 2023 (UTC)