User talk:Hwaxman

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Hello Hwaxman! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and another Wikipedian will show up shortly. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Just H 19:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Property tax

Hwaxman, glad to have you editing! Welcome to Wikipedia. I wanted to point to a few policies that I think would improve your writing and help your changes stay in the article without other editors removing them. See above for Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research • Neutral point of view • Reliable sources. For example, your latest edit was "A very important benefit of a tax on property over a tax on income is that the revenue always equals the tax levy. Unlike income or sales taxes, which can result in shortfalls producing deficits, the property tax always produces the required revenue for municipalities." How do I know this is true? What is the source? Is this a point of view or fact? Also, it is a global encyclopdia so keep that in mind when wording - try to avoid terms like "we". Just thought I'd offer assistance as I do not want you to get discouraged if editors keep reverting your additions. Morphh ^(talk) 02:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks. I have a lot to learn

Hwaxman 11:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with editing

One of your most recent edits was reverted because you added your signature to the article; while this is de rigeur on talk pages, it is not done in articles.

I misunderstood the directions

Some of your other edits were reverted because they violated Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, which requires articles to be unbiased; your additions contained such phrases as "Is it any wonder it is one of, if not the most hated tax in the United States" and "Always ignored is the unfair distribution." If you state your ideas as impartial facts and cite reliable sources (Economist John Q. Public argues that this distribution is unfair.<link to newspaper article>), they will likely be kept. Deltabeignet 03:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll try to watch this more carefully. How can you possibly watch over so much material? Fantastic job, (according to John Q Public, of course :-).

--Hwaxman 11:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)