User talk:Utnijlj

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Hello, Utnijlj! 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 {{helpme}} 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. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:22, 30 May 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Depends on what you want to do. If it's article creation, I'd hold off for a little while. I can tell you what I did, way back in the wilds of time when I started here... :-)

What I recommend is beginning with small edits - typo corrections, punctuation fixes, that sort of thing - to get a feel for the formatting. See an article with a title that requires italics? Go in and italicize it. See a name that's wrong? Correct it. Use the preview button to make sure you're doing things right. Doing those sorts of edits helps you to learn the ins and outs of formatting, and makes it easier for you to figure it out in future. Once you've got the hang of that, you can move on to larger things.

One tip: if you hate formatting references (as I do), here's a tool that will do it for you: https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ Doesn't pick up every bare link, and you do have to review before hitting "save", but it's great for saving tons of work.

And have fun with it - I do. (Some might say too much fun...)

I hope that helps for starters - please let me know if you have any other questions! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:53, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

David Helpling article

The article David Helpling has still not solidly established WP:Notability. See Wikipedia:Notability (people) and particularly the section known as WP:AUTHOR for the relevant criteria. The article needs additional citations to independent reliable secondary sources. If you know of such sources, such as reviews or profiles in print or online magazines with good reputations (not blogs or fan sites), or newspaper coverage beyond concert or release listings, please list such sources on Talk:David Helpling so that they can be included. Otherwise someone may well nominate the article for deletion, and it might be deleted after a consensus discussion. DES ^(talk) 14:49, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

I will try to take a look and see if I can be of any help. I make no promises, especially as I'm having some heavy-duty computer troubles right now that seem to leave just about anything I can do dead in the water at the moment. But I will try to get some ideas together. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:14, 27 August 2015 (UTC)