I've got medium computer skills, can I edit an article that needs an addition to clarify? (not change any existing text)


thanks



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/06/2015 10:27PM by GNPE.

Yep. Very easy.

A colleague at work was horrified at the speed with which I was able (without being registered) to change an entry on Wikipedia. (The grammar in an article was shocking and needed fixing.)

She said: "But if you can change it that easily, doesn't that mean that anyone could do it?"

And that's a fair point.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/06/2015 10:31PM by matt.

pray tell How....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_editing

People unfamiliar with Wikipedia (are there really any left?) are often baffled by the "anyone can edit" aspect, and yet on the whole, it works. Better than printed encyclopedias.

Read the talk page for the article you want to edit. Spelling/grammar/copyediting issues are pretty easy to fix, but if you see anything of substance that you think you want to change, you might want to start with a suggestion about it on the talk page.

Just remember WP is an encyclopedia--a tertiary source. You have to provide footnotes and reliable sources for anything in an article. That's why contributors are called "editors" and not "writers".

If you are an expert in a particular subject, you might be frustrated that other editors don't accept your word for things without published reliable references. If I'm not mistaken, I think Tom Phillips ran into this situation with the Second Anointing article.

Thanks; DONE!

if anyone cares to read my edit, look up Seattle Wah Mee massacre, 'Backstory'