User talk:Willsparkles

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Willsparkles. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by DES ^(talk) 12:37, 1 October 2015 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Willsparkles! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 clicking

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A couple more things, Willsparkles — while external links can sometimes be useful in Wikipedia articles, we try to keep them only in the References section and/or the External links section, at the end of an article. Links in the body of the article should always be intralinks to other Wikipedia articles (or occasionally to Wiktionary). To create an intralink, surround the article title with double square brackets: [[Novel]] produces Novel, for example.

Also, I see you've already been to the Teahouse, and that your question (about mission statements) received a brusque response. This was partly because the Teahouse is very frequently visited by new users who created their accounts solely to promote their own company or organization, and who are uninterested in improving Wikipedia outside the article about themselves or related articles. Sometimes Teahouse volunteers' patience wears thin from dealing with such users who can be very stubborn about wanting exceptions to Wikipedia policies made for them. You should have been answered in a more friendly manner than you were, though, and I'm sorry that didn't happen.

I hope you will continue to contribute to Wikipedia! Do give the Teahouse another try next time you have a question. —GrammarFascist _contribs ^talk 19:07, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Willsparkles. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Gronk Oz (talk) 07:10, 10 November 2015 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

November 2015

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