User talk:Morty MC

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Please help me with understanding the criterion for considering a source as a valid citation Hayya! I am new to wikipedia. I have very little knowledge of its editing criterions. I had tried to create an article on an organisation. I found it really interesting, what they do. The thing I am doubtful is about giving citations. What exactly must these citations do? praise the subject or just refer its name in any of the articles they write? I don't really understand what they mean to convey... ?And how does the wikipedia check if the citation provided is credible or not? Is there a specific length constraint to an article...What if the article consist of just a few lines...? Can anyone help me with creating a wikipedia page on the subject... Morty MC (talk) 02:43, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

You're opening a lot of questions here and have already asked the same thing elsewhere.

Most of the questions are addressed initially by the your first article essay. But as a new editor, you have to realize that creating a whole new article as your first task on Wikipedia is probably a poor choice. Instead, I would advise you to take smaller steps to begin with, making contributions to existing articles and - through interactions with other editors - learning more about how Wikipedia works. Bulling away at creating a new article without this understanding is often such a frustrating experience that many people give up and leave. And that's not what we want to happen.

The interest you have in an organization is a decent starting point, but the next step is finding independent sources that talk about the organization in significant depth. They're independent, so we would not expect them to be praising or criticizing the organization, necessarily, but, paradoxically perhaps, one way for an organization to become notable is for it to be entangled in some sort of scandal that brings plenty of press attention to their doings. For an organization, we require that the sources meet the notability criteria laid out at WP:Notability (organizations and companies). Mere mentions of the organization can sometimes be used to support individual facts, but cannot support notability.

While Wikipedia has such a thing as stubs, we encouraged editors of new drafts to aim higher than creating a stub. Many stubs never progress on to become decent articles and the best time to get them past that point is when we have you, as a contributor, interested enough to try to get the draft to a decent state. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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Please help me with gaining some practice over editing Hey there!

I was recently trying to do some practice editing a random page... Can any of you give me some advice on how I can edit technology related pages alone? Is there any way to do that? When I try to gain practice by editing other pages, I find that I have very little or no knowledge on that topic. How do we write about something we don't know of. Or do we conduct extended research before editing a page? In that case won't it take like forever to actually begin editing the place in an effective way? Morty MC (talk) 07:35, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

A good place to start might be Wikipedia:WikiProject Technology. Most people start editing by editing about topics that they are personally interested in- you don't have to edit about something that you don't know anything about. (though if you are directly related to a topic, beyond merely an interest in it, it crosses the line into conflict of interest) You should ideally have independent reliable sources in hand before editing an article(if to add information to it, not just correct spelling). Have you used the tutorial? 331dot (talk) 08:09, 28 July 2025 (UTC)