User talk:Rhbsihvi

Adoption

Hello, Rhbsihvi! I see that you have expressed an interest in being adopted by an experienced editor. I would be willing to adopt you, though it might help if you provided some information about your interests and what you are looking for in an adopter. The full list of adopters can be found here, and you are free to choose any available adopter you feel would be the best fit for you. More information about me can be found on my user page or at my adopter entry. If you are interested or have any further questions about this process, please use my talk page, or if you reply here please post {{tb|Rhbsihvi}} on my talk page. Krashlandon ^(talk) 17:56, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My interests are in writing and improving articles and finding out what else there is to do at this site. Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user says an adopter is a mentor, which I suppose is needed, especially after reading Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes which has so much I can’t remember already. I can rely to a certain extent on my own judgment based on my secular and religious education, and my understanding of what Wikipedia obviously is – an encyclopedia all over the internet, which trusts the public to tell the truth. I skimmed you user page and am wondering how sources can be archived without that being copyright infringement. The “tb” makes sense since I am unaware of any convenient way to watch pages. I’m not sure why you created all those accounts. I clicked the “user contributions” of the top of the list and it is unused. I don’t plan on being a fanatic on Wikipedia all day. I will occasionally visit this site. Rhbsihvi (talk) 23:05, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. I will address your comments in order.

After seeing your interests, I'm pretty sure I can help you with that. I have created several articles myself, and have lots of experience gathering sources and placing citations, including in controversial situations where things got heated (see this). There are many automated or semiautomated tools that can help you with some of the harder to remember tasks. Twinkle for one is extremely helpful for adding tags, including the TB tag you just used, and warning vandals. Others can make it easier to add sources, etc.
I have lots of experience with the Wikipedia guidelines, so I could answer your questions and steer you in the right direction whenever you need help. If you want to be more active, there are multitudes of ways to help out with the project, and I could point you to subprojects, activities, or research avenues that interest you. As an adopter, I am here to show you the ropes, so to speak, and to lend my experience.
The "archiving" I am referring to on my user page is in the sense that I have access to a large university library with microfilm and other such archives, not in the sense that the sources would be available online if they were not authorized to be. By the way, you can watch pages by clicking the star at the top right of the page banner. Then any changes will show up in your watchlist.
I have created so many accounts because I am part of the team of volunteers who review account creation requests for people who are not able to create an account for themselves, either because they are unable to read the captcha image or are affected by a rangeblock or some other difficulty that prevents them from creating an account. We review their information and create the account for them, and the software sends them a randomly generated password. The reason many of those accounts have no contributions is that some people get accounts and then never edit, using them only for saving their preferences, or that they forget about them.
You don't have to be terribly active to use Wikipedia or profit from a mentor. There are even some tips and tricks for effectively navigating without even editing anything.

If you are still interested, let me know. Thanks,

Krashlandon ^(talk) 00:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]