Ten Commandments for New Editors

Disclaimer: The following are not rules; they are simply helpful tips.

1. If you have no unreviewed sites to edit, search for them yourself and then add them directly to your category.
2. Use your bookmarks to practice with the editing interface and features available to you.
3. Read, and if possible participate in, the editor discussion fora.
4. If you have a question that needs answering, first browse DDP, and then the Editor Fora (via Forum Search) before you start a thread
5. Read the Guidelines at least once, especially the section on describing sites.
6. Never cool, or otherwise unfairly promote, any site with which you are affiliated -- even if the affiliation is indirect. Ignoring this rule is likely to result in your editing permissions being revoked.
7. After you feel that your category is guideline compliant, it is suggested that you request a critique of your editing. You can do this either by contacting an editor privately, or posting in the current incarnation of the Come Here to Get Your Cat Checked thread, in the New Editors forum.
8. Don't apply for a new category until you have at least ten edits. Without these the meta/catmod reviewing your request will not have a good idea of your abilities, and subsequently will probably deny the request.
9. Please be polite and courteous in all of your communications.
10. Ask if you have any questions, either by starting a thread in the New Editors forum, contacting a fellow editor via feedback, or asking somebody listed in the appropriate Test/Editors/Areas_of_Activity category