User talk:Thorrand

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Thorrand. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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Again, welcome! Bosstopher (talk) 09:11, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the belated welcome. I've been trying to involve myself with editing for years, but the act of getting started is daunting to say the least. I'm wary of making edits as I don't want to step on anyone else's toes. The pages I'd like to create already exist, and even the newbie resources available are a massive wall of text. This is more intimidating than when I jumped into the open source community. I'll get it eventually. Thorrand (talk) 10:28, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Bosstopher (talk) 09:11, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]