Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27772429-20170220155300/@comment-28125426-20170221001343

I'm coming close to a year of editing. I started out looking at the editing screen like it was in binary. I annoyed Tupka with every tiny little detail I was unsure of. I made mistakes and admin fixed them. I checked their edits against mine to see what I was doing wrong, and if I didn't know why something was changed, I asked. Thanks to Tupka's patience, I learned all the technical aspects of editing I needed to be self sufficient, but it's dialogue with Tupka, SforHope, Kyletheobald and Byfield that I learned about the other important side of editing, community and bureaucracy.

I learned early on that consultation is the best approach when undertaking anything new. Granted, I foremost wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing before attempting to make a category or an info box, but it was the discussion of determining if something is relevant or viable first that is really important.

Admin and long time users know from experience what is good for the Database. Yes, there are grey areas, that's why discussion is all the more important. I've had to defend a certain entry or two, but even if the original entry is not ideal, there is usually an alternate or compromise to be worked out.

Tupka is not a monster, he's just Dutch.