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Welcome and advice from a freelancer

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Hello, Pdberger, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Orange Mike | Talk 20:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Getting started
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The community

Writing articles
Miscellaneous

Signing your posts

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Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Privacy

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One of our rules here is that if somebody signs up for an account, their privacy is protected. This is an obvious whistleblower protection, as well as a protection for editors from countries where speaking truth to power (as we Quakers say) can be a route to a death sentence. Does this leave us open to jerks, spammers, spinmasters and liars? Of course: but this is "The free encyclopedia that anybody can edit", and that vulnerability is the price we pay for freedom. Feel free to contact me at my talk page or by e-mail, if you want to discuss anything about your current quest, or anything else Wikipedian! --Orange Mike | Talk 20:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]