User talk:Jlsmith2

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Sincerely, Howicus (talk) 21:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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Have fun editing! Howicus (talk) 21:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

First tasks

Jlsmith2, You have completed most of the tasks.  Partly done You still need to edit your user page and add some wikilinks to articles in Wikipedia, such as University of Southern Indiana. The tutorial, or Wikipedia:Training/For_students, should help you get started. Once you've edited your page your User:Jlsmith2 link in signature will change from red to blue. Crtew (talk) 14:02, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

I saw you had your user page!  Done Crtew (talk) 23:50, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Adopt a journalist project

You have been assigned Décio Sá (click here to edit). Crtew (talk) 02:00, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Based on our conversations, I am reassigning you to cover User:Crtew/Christopher_Guarin of the Philippines. Crtew (talk) 17:36, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Notability statement

You still need a notability statement up top.Crtew (talk) 22:46, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

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Article Review

You've pretty much got everything down on your article except that you still need to write your notability statement and fill in some of the info that you left blank. Other than that, it's awesome! Sglammela (talk) 05:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)