It is approximately 5:47 AM where this user lives.
A few questions for you to start off this adoption:
1) Would you prefer to be called Scribbleink, Scribble, or something else?
2) What is your goal in contributing to Wikipedia?
3) What time zone do you live in?
4) What do you expect to get out of this mentorship?
5) What picture would you like on this page to represent you? It can be a picture of anything, and it doesn't have to be one that you've uploaded yourself. For some examples, see User:Missionedit/Adoption/Molly's Mind or User:Missionedit/Adoption/Hisashiyarouin.
~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 21:24, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
1) Please call me Nik. My username is a cryptic crossword clue leading to that, wherein scribble is the action verb for an anagram and ink is the payload that needs to be jumbled. Thank you, Anastasia, for taking me under your wing.
2) In terms of the big picture: editing. As an ardent consumer of the information on Wikipedia, and a participating donor, I would like to take the next step and give information back to the source I'm tapping from. In terms of short term goals, I want to make at least 500 clean edits, earn AFCH privileges, complete my existing WIP article and gather sufficient knowledge of the guidelines to help review existing AfC submissions.
3) Pacific Time Zone
4) A sounding board for when the fog is too thick. A navigator to point me in the right direction. A filter to help me wade through the swamps here in WikiVerse. And a philtre when nothing seems to work. No pressure.
@Scribbleink: Great--good to know. My pleasure to become your adopter! Clever anagram you made up there :) I prefer to be called Anastasia or Stasia.
We can start with the five pillars (fundamentals) of Wikipedia, if you like. I just recently discovered the virtues of collapsible tables, and prefer to use them to organize lessons. If you can think of a better way to organize them, just let me know and I'll fix it. I'll try to get the first lesson up ASAP.
I've also found the ping template (used at the beginning of this reply) to be very useful on adoption pages. It sends a notification to the user named without the cumbersome clunkiness of a talkback template. It looks like this: {{ping|user you are responding to}}. Feel free to use it, but you don't have to as I check my watchlist daily. ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 04:38, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
@Scribbleink: Good thinking about the collapse tables. I had forgotten to change the one at Hisashiyarouin's adoption page if that's what you're referring to. I just fixed it now. I don't really think Template:CTableStart will be deleted, only modified a bit, so I'm not concerned. I'll get a lesson up soon when I get the time. ~ Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 04:03, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
