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Welcome to the madhouse; please say hello

Welcome

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Hi, Minusia. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck!  Chzz  ►  18:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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  • You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.
  • Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.
  • Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.
  • When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

--  Chzz  ►  18:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Getting started
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July 2009

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Lalgarh (Midnapore), did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Lalgarh (Midnapore) was changed by Minusia (u) (t) deleting 10555 characters on 2009-07-16T03:40:30+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 03:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Belated welcome to Wikipedia, Minusia

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Although some prefer welcoming newcomers with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.

Hello, Minusia, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.

Why can't I edit some particular pages?
Some pages that have been vandalized repeatedly are semi-protected, meaning that editing by new or unregistered users is prohibited through technical measures. If you have an account that is four days old and has made at least 10 edits, then you can bypass semi-protection and edit any semi-protected page. Some pages, such as highly visible templates, are fully-protected, meaning that only administrators can edit them.
Where can I experiment with editing Wikipedia?
How do I create an article?
See how to create your first article, then use the Article Wizard to create one, and add references to the article as explained below.
How do I create citations?
  1. Do a search on Google or your preferred search engine for the subject of the Wikipedia article that you want to create a citation for.
  2. Find a website that supports the claim you are trying to find a citation for.
  3. In a new tab/window, go to the citation generator, click on the 'An arbitrary website' bubble, and fill out as many fields as you can about the website you just found.
  4. Click the 'Get reference wiki text' button.
  5. Highlight, and then copy (Ctrl+C or Apple+C), the resulting text (it will be something like <ref> {{cite web | .... }}</ref>, copy the whole thing).
  6. In the Wikipedia article, after the claim you found a citation for, paste (Ctrl+V or Apple+V) the text you copied.
  7. If the article does not have a References or Notes section (or the like), add this to the bottom of the page, but above the External Links section and the categories:
==References==
{{Reflist}}
What is a WikiProject, and how do I join one?
A WikiProject is a group of editors that are interested in improving the coverage of certain topics on Wikipedia. (See this page for a complete list of WikiProjects.) If you would like to help, add your username to the list that is on the bottom of the WikiProject page.

AshLin (talk) 16:25, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to OWIS, Minusia

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Hi Minusia,

Happy to know that you are interested to contribute in Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools initiative. Welcome to the team. Seeing that you are relatively new to editing in Wikipedia, I recommend that you may like to read the links I suggested above in my belated welcome message, and get acquainted with Wikipedia's features, its culture and begin editing as soon as possible. Your capability in contributing to this project will depend on your ability to participate in a broad range of Wikipedia activities beyond the selection of articles which is an early stage in the complete task. We are all there to help you in this process :). Do feel free to ask questions. Hope you find participating in OWIS very fruitful! AshLin (talk) 16:19, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]