User talk:Leahbindmancohen

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Shearonink (talk) 19:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024

Thanks for your suggestion for Talk:Robert E. Lee. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to change it. We encourage you to be bold in updating pages, because wikis like ours develop faster when everybody edits. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. You can always preview your edits before you publish them or test them out in your sandbox. If you need additional help, check out our getting started page or ask the friendly folks at the Teahouse. A couple of things about your post...

• In your post on Talk:Robert E. Lee you mention "the author" as if there is just one person who has written this article. Well, the wonderful thing about Wikipedia is that there is never just one author on any Wikipedia article. Since just the beginning of 2024 there have been 17 different editors working on it. And this article has been in existence in an everchanging form since 2001, so it's over 23 years old and probably hundreds of different people have edited it. After all, Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can edit.
• The article is very long because 1)the subject is controversial and 2)the subject is complex. So occasionally it might wander...after all, the readable prose size is over 12,000 words (which would probably be at least 24 pages single spaced) - the references in text form alone are over 1900 bytes.
• Since you are pretty new on Wikipedia I would suggest if you would like to work on this article that you first get some more experience around here, perhaps editing a less complex and controversial subject. WP:PRIMER and Help:Getting started both have good advice and tips about editing on Wikipedia.

Good luck - Shearonink (talk) 20:16, 18 April 2024 (UTC)