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== Communication Guidance == New contributors don’t receive any guidance on how to effectively communicate with other editors. I suggest adding a section “How to Discuss With Other Contributors”. This section should cover when and how to discuss something on the “Discussion” page for a topic, how to engage other contributors in said discussion, when to use a User’s talk page, and how to contact an administrator for mepedia for admin issues. As a new user, I know nothing of these things and I have no one to ask. [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 20:36, 15 February 2019 (EST) :[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]], that's a really good idea. I have started such a page at [[MEpedia:Discussion]], but it's pretty bare bones. You're right it should include how to ping folks if you're not leaving a message on a User's talk page. I'm also going to go ahead and boldly create [[MEpedia:Editor help desk]] as a centralized place to ask questions. Given editor availability can really vary, it seems to me it might be, well, helpful to have a place to go to pose a question to whomever might be around. But if others have a different idea or even a different name and want redirect or delete this, I won't be offended. Figure I'll just give it a shot rather than leave it to someone else. :Eventually this should be incorporated into How to contribute, yes... [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 21:41, 15 February 2019 (EST) ::Thanks [[User:Canele]]! If you get the answers to all my questions down on [[MEpedia:Discussion]], I'll try to make it pretty. ::For what it's worth, my preference would be to have this info in the Contribute page rather than on a separate page, but I like your idea of a [[MEpedia:Editor help desk]] page, if we can only figure out how to get it onto everyone's watchlist! ::Thanks again. ::[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:38, 15 February 2019 (EST) :::Definitely agree, [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]], we should have a summary here of guidance about interacting with others here. I started the [[MEpedia:Discussion]] page thinking of the guidance that many users--whether readers or editors--may have energy limits and when any page gets too long, it will de facto be inaccessible. So I was thinking ideally we'd include a concise summary here and link out to the [[MEpedia:Discussion]] page for more elaboration. :::For the help desk: I've gone ahead and added a request that folks add it to their watchlists. I think for now, most active editors look through recent changes and will see it, but I do hope linking to it from other places will help guide people there, with both questions and answers. :::As to answering your questions: I don't know that I have all the answers! Do you want to make some up? So far, if I couldn't find an answer in existing guidance, I just make one up and trust that if someone else comes along and thinks it should go differently, they'll say so and then we can...discuss. Grin. Editor/admin availability really does vary so I think, don't hold back in writing the first draft if you have ideas. [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 01:04, 16 February 2019 (EST) ::::I've found this annoying too. There's also very little in the Help: name space. It would be helpful to have things more connected / linked and include communication within that. NJT [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 08:05, 17 February 2019 (EST) :::::I will be updating this page soon to make it more easily accessible to new users. I will stress ways for new users to communicate when they have questions, including the MEpedia:Discussion page and the Editor help desk. :::::[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:58, 29 March 2019 (EDT) ===Re: Communication Guidance -- ~~~~=== : Replace this text with your reply
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