User blog comment:TwoBearsHigh-Fiving/Welcoming Newcomers to Your Community/@comment-20644-20130918171653

Great advice!

I remember the first wikia I edited on, which was Star Wars Fanon. I created a character article, and I didn't know that out-of-universe information could only go in a Behind the Scenes section, so I put some into the page's intro text. That OOU info was removed by an admin, and I didn't know why. They didn't tell me. I went ahead and asked them, and only then did I find out what I did wrong.

If I hadn't been an admin on other sites at the time, though, I might've been intimidated to go and ask that admin&mdash;who, as I recall, was a bit intimidating to new users. It's always a good idea to take the extra 2 minutes it takes to leave a message, rather than just undoing the edit and leaving it at all. After all, that's what admins are for.