amanda if you want to see controversial try the articles dealing with the bible but anyway the way to go about editing is to begin by creating totally new sections to del with areas of the main subject that so far aren't represented in the article adding is far less likely to step on toes than subtracting other editors will judge the quality of your work and you'll gain acceptance as one of the team then when you've established your credibility try re organising existing material amalgamate material that deals with the same subject but might appear in different sections shorten paragraphs and improve syntax and so on but always trying not to delete more than is essential and trying also to retain wikilinks finally suggest deletion of any material you think is irrelevant or otherwise doesn't belong this is where you'll probably find you have to compromise the most as i said befoer i have no books and no access to books and so can't help you with drafting but i do want to see leo improved and i'll certainly help with editing