User talk:Cdk

Welcome to the Wikipedia[edit]

Welcome, Cdk!

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Wikipedia experience:

First, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
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Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

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Best of luck, and have fun! – Clockwork Soul 07:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to Swift (programming language)[edit]

Hi Cdk! I reverted your recent addition to the Swift article, so I wanted to explain a bit about why I did that, to avoid accidentally discouraging you from adding to the article in general. That bit from Apple's manual is Apple's opinion instead of a fact about the language (and it's a direct quote), so if we wanted to include it, we'd have to frame it as "In its manual for Swift, Apple says [quote]." - see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view for more explanation. But ordinarily Wikipedia doesn't quote what an organization says about its work unless it's especially interesting/significant. Instead, if this has been discussed in reliable third-party sources (such as by programming language experts), we could say something more neutral/factual about how "Apple's goals in designing the language included making a systems programming language that 'is as expressive and enjoyable as a scripting language'." I'm not an expert in this, so I don't know if that's the right phrasing though. Dreamyshade (talk) 18:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]