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Meanwhile the book publishing industry continues to grow at the slow but steady pace of around 1% a year; mediocre local newspapers shut down but prestigious papers like the New York Times and The Economist grow hugely; and Britannica probably has more readers than it did thirty years ago even if it's making less cash.

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Simon Belmont, do you edit under:

A) An anonymous IP
B) A user with no userpage (their names appear red so they are identified as newbies)

Wikipedia editors are biased towards reverting anything even slightly suspicious from these, because well, I've patrolled Recent Changes a few times myself and it quickly becomes obvious that edits from them are 75% bad.

So, here is how to become a member of the "elite": create an account with a minimal userpage, learn the wiki markup syntax so you look like you know the ropes, and speak in the bland formal Wikipedia tone. Wikipedia is too big for anybody to know everyone by name, and there are no real factions most of the time; there are just the three main categories of anons, regular users and admins. Factions and edit wars tend to form only on certain limited and predictable controversial topics; avoid them and you'll feel better about Wikipedia.

Generally you can project the impression that you are a regular user and nobody will bother to look at your edit history to see you are a newbie. I guarantee that, on noncontroversial topics, you will almost never be reverted even if you don't bother to source.