User talk:Booroobin
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[edit]Welcome!
Hello, Booroobin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! [End of standard welcome message]
By the way, the syntax for external links works like this: a link put in single square brackets will show as a numbered link with no text; if you put the link, then a space, then text, the text will be highlighted as an external hyperlink, and if you just put the link with no brackets, the link will be highlighted:
- [http://www.lucasmill.com/] gives [1]
- [http://www.lucasmill.com/ Lucas mill] gives Lucas mill
- http://www.lucasmill.com/ gives http://www.lucasmill.com/
In your message in Talk:Alaskan mill you used square brackets like the first option, but you put a space before the link; this broke the syntax so it defaulted to the last option. See WP:External links for more, including how to use external links in articles.
For your signature on talk pages, you don't have to put your name, just the four tildes (~~~~), and it'll put your name in automatically.
Regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 11:11, 27 January 2011 (UTC)