User talk:GaucheGoose
Welcome
[edit]Hello, GaucheGoose, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Other things to think about
[edit]As a follow up creating your article first in your personal sandbox means that you will have time to develop your article before other editors swoop in for analysis and editing of their own (which, if you have not yet included the appropriate sources is likely to include a nomination for deletion.
And as one of the good ways to use Wikipedia to help change the world (and there are many BAD ways that you shouldnt try) is to help attempt to overcome the systemic bias and address issues and topics that have traditionally not been heavily developed in Wikipedia.
And you can help not only by creating new articles but improving existing articles by adding good sources (you can find a lot of those here Category:Articles lacking sources) and addressing bias in the content. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 17:53, 23 November 2013 (UTC)