User talk:Redpandatrans

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Hey @Redpandatrans!

Welcome to this Wikipedia experiment! I've come across your excellent beginning efforts at Bucoda, Washington and the Yelm–Rainier–Tenino Trail. Really well done right from the start!

I wanted to reach out to you regarding one change I had to make regarding the transit route at Bucoda...any bit of information, not matter how small, has to be backed up by either an existing citation on an article page or with the addition of a new citation mentioning the details...exactly what you did very well at the trail article. For more information, see WP:WHYCITE and the 2.3 million connected guidelines and essays attached!

Speaking of the YRT trail, if you come across a non-blog source for the Nisqually River extension, please feel free to replace the existing. Other editors would remove a blog reference (see WP:BLOG), but I'm not that way. The chance of a Thurston or Pierce county guvmint page update, or a report in the Nisqually Valley News, is probably fairly high.

I'm so very glad to see a new editor who may have an interest in working Thurston County articles. Boy, can we use the help! I hope that my note to you does not come across as critical or causes you any negative effects; it's all done in the spirit of being there for a new editor, helping to guide them through a difficult if not confusing start, trying to navigate the enormous litany of guidelines and consensus. If I can be of any guidance, please reach out. Just not for coding. You're better off listening to a rabid raccoon.

OlympiaBuebird (talk) 16:24, 23 March 2026 (UTC)