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Welcome to Wikipedia
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Getting Started on 
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Please, click around! These easily navigable links should be indepesensable to the new user.
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Here are some ways you can help improve Wikipedia:
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Buster Seven Talk 12:38, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
This is a new user
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User:Yayroos Welcome
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Welcome Buster3.5!
| Some pages of helpful information to get you started: | Some common sense Do's and Don'ts:
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Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page, and someone will try to help.
There are many ways you can contribute to Wikipedia. Here are a few ideas:
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Remember to always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the 
button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your signature, a link to this (your talk) page, and a timestamp.
To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can create your own private sandbox for use any time. Perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put
{{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.Sincerely, ````Buster Seven Talk 07:05, 13 September 2014 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Welcome to Wikipedia
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Listed below are some brief introductions containing all the basics needed to use, comment on, and contribute to Wikipedia.
- Main Introduction — What is Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia:A Primer for newcomers — A good starting point.
- The Five Pillars — What are the principles behind Wikipedia?
- Quick Introductions to:
- Policies and guidelines — How does Wikipedia actually work?
- Talk pages — How do I communicate in Wikipedia?
- Referencing — How do I add sources to articles?
- Uploading images — How do I add and use images?
- Navigating Wikipedia — How do I find my way around?
- What Wikipedia is not - even though everyone can edit it, Wikipedia is still an encyclopedia.
If you want to know more about a specific subject, Help:Help explains how to navigate the many help pages.
- Google: Wikipedia is very well indexed by Google. Searching for a term, even about an editing question, followed by "wiki" or "wikipedia" usually pulls up what you need.
Where next?
[edit]- Check out Help:Watching pages. Your own Watchlist can become your favorite place to visit.
- If you wish to express an opinion or make a comment, Where to ask questions will point you in the correct direction.
- If you would like to edit an article, the Basic tutorial will show you how, and How to help will give you some ideas for things to edit.
- If you would like to create a new article, Starting an article will explain how to create a new page, with tips for success and a link to Wikipedia's Article Wizard, which can guide you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
- For more support and some friendly contacts to get you started, the Editors' Welcome page or the Wikipedia:Teahouse page could be your next stop!
See also
[edit]Good luck and happy editing.```
Comments to a vandal
[edit]The above welcome was left for an adult. If you are the child that is vandalizing the articles of Wikipedia, please ignore it. You won't be around long enough to grow as an editor. The choice is, as always, up to you.```Buster Seven Talk14:16, 6 November 2012
Short stay Welcome
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[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia! Listed below are some brief introductions containing all the basics needed to use, comment on, and contribute to Wikipedia.
- Main Introduction — What is Wikipedia?
- The Five Pillars — What are the principles behind Wikipedia?
- Quick Introductions to:
- Policies and guidelines — How does Wikipedia actually work?
- Talk pages — How do I communicate in Wikipedia?
- Referencing — How do I add sources to articles?
- Uploading images — How do I add and use images?
- Navigating Wikipedia — How do I find my way around?
- What Wikipedia is not - even though everyone can edit it, Wikipedia is still an encyclopedia.
If you want to know more about a specific subject, Help:Help explains how to navigate the help pages.
Where next?
[edit]- If you wish to express an opinion or make a comment, Where to ask questions will point you in the correct direction.
- If you would like to edit an article, the Basic tutorial will show you how, and How to help will give you some ideas for things to edit.
- If you would like to create a new article, Starting an article will explain how to create a new page, with tips for success and a link to Wikipedia's Article Wizard, which can guide you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
- For more support and some friendly contacts to get you started, the Editors' Welcome page should be your next stop!
See also
[edit]Good luck and happy editing. If you are here to assist in positive editing of the encyclopedia, you are welcome. If you are here for other reasons, your stay may be a short one. It's always up to you. --Buster Seven Talk 14:41, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
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Again, welcome! Buster Seven Talk 07:12, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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 This is your Talk page where you can receive messages from other Wikipedians and discuss things with them. At the end of your messages you must put your signature by signing with four ~~~~ (just as I have done) or by pressing the button in the editor bar as shown here in the picture. By the way, you don't need to sign edits that you make in the articles themselves as those messages will be deleted. Another valuable page that may provide information and assistance is User:Persian Poet Gal/"How-To" Guide to Wikipedia. My name is Buster7. If you have any questions or face any initial hurdles, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I will do what I can to assist or give you guidance and contact information. Good Luck editing! | |||
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The five pillars of Wikipedia. The fundamental principles of the project. |
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Tutorial. Step-by-step guide on how to edit. |
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Main policies of Wikipedia. Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines. |
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How to start a page. If you want to create a new article |
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Style Guide. The complete guide to how articles should look. |
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Help. The complete help guide |
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Copyright. Addressing copyright concerns. |
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Quick reference. A handy quick reference guide for editing Wiki. |
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Help Desk. Here you can ask other editors for assistance |
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Adoption program. Request an experienced guide for your first steps of editing. |
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Frequently asked questions. Some common questions and their answers. |
This is being posted on your Talk page where you can receive messages from other Wikipedians and discuss issues and respond to questions. At the end of each message you will see a signature left by the editor posting. This is done by signing with four ~~~~ or by pressing or in the editing interface tool box, located just above the editing window (when editing). Do not sign edits that you make in the articles themselves as those messages will be deleted, but only when using the article talkpage, yours or another editor's talkpage. Another valuable page that may provide information and assistance is User:Persian Poet Gal/"How-To" Guide to Wikipedia. If you have any questions or face any initial hurdles, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I will do what I can to assist or give you guidance and contact information.
Again, welcome! Buster Seven Talk 14:23, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
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The five pillars of Wikipedia. The fundamental principles of the project. |
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Tutorial. Step-by-step guide on how to edit. |
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Main policies of Wikipedia. Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines. |
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How to start a page. If you want to create a new article |
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Style Guide. The complete guide to how articles should look. |
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Help. The complete help guide |
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Copyright. Addressing copyright concerns. |
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Quick reference. A handy quick reference guide for editing Wiki. |
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Help Desk. Here you can ask other editors for assistance |
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Your user pages and your sandbox. Editing in your own "personal" space |
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Adoption program. Request an experienced guide for your first steps of editing. |
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Frequently asked questions. Some common questions and their answers. |
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Welcome Buster7 to Wikipedia
Hi Buster7 and welcome to Wikipedia!
Be bold in editing pages and don't let others scare you off! To sign your posts (on talk pages, for example) use ~~~~ (four tildes). This will insert your name and timestamp.
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Here are some links that you might find useful:
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You can contribute in many ways:
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I hope you stick around and keep contributing to Wikipedia. Should you need help, you can drop a note on my talk page or use the Wikipedia:New contributors' help page. You can also type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. If you want to learn from fellow wikipedians, consider getting adopted. Once again, welcome and I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia!
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[edit]Hello, Buster7, and thank you for joining Wikipedia. We appreciate your help and contributions. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
For general help, there is live chat help or the new users' help page- For help with editing, please see our editing tutorial or our cheatsheet
- To create a new article, please use the article wizard
- To add an image to an article, please see our cheatsheet and our uploading images guide
- For a general overview of contributing to Wikipedia, please visit our introduction page
Here's a helpful tip. When writing messages to others, please end your message with four tildes (~~~~). This automatically adds your username and date and is called signing your message. Thanks again for helping Wikipedia.
Welcome! by User:ThatPeskyCommoner
[edit]Some tips to help you out!
[edit]Hi Buster7, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)
First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.
Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Buster7/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.
For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).
Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.
Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.
One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 11:15, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
A Primer Welcome
[edit]Buster7/Welcomes, welcome to Wikipedia!
I noticed nobody had said hi yet...so...Hi!
If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.
You might like some of these links and tips:
- some General guidance.
- Tutorial and the Manual of Style.
- Find out how to revert, move and merge pages.
- Sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~).
- Add yourself to the New user log and a regional notice board
- Ask questions at the Wikipedia:Teahouse or Help desk.
- Use the Show preview button
- Provide an Edit summary
- Add the correct image copyright tag to any images you upload
- Take a look at Consensus of standards
- Create a User page
If, for some reason, you are unable to fix a problem yourself, feel free to ask someone else to do it. Wikipedia has a vibrant community of contributors who have a wide range of skills and specialties, and many of them would be glad to help. As well as the wiki community pages there are IRC Channels, where you are more than welcome to ask for assistance.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, -- ```Buster Seven Talk 19:05, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
User:Madhero88's Welcome
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- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- How to write a great article
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome! MaenK.A.Talk</spa> 16:01, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
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Tanzee Ahad's Welcome
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Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page [[Buster Seven Talk]] — I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.
Here are some more resources to help you as you explore and contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia...
Finding your way around:
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User:Banaticus's Welcome to Wikipedia!
[edit]Welcome Buster7/Welcomes You might find the following to be helpful as you discover your way around:
Wikipedia Help | |
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Policies and guidelines |
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Browsing Wikipedia |
Asking questions |
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Editing Wikipedia |
The Wikipedia community |
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Links and references |
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 Making the editbox more visually pleasing
Do you know the CC BY-SA/GFDL License inside-out, and have thousands of edits to your credit? Are all those copyright disclaimer warnings starting to bug you? Add this to your (pick one): vector.css (default), monobook.css, modern.css, minerva.css Skin (or add it to your common.css to hit all your skins):
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Buster Seven Talk 12:55, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Bates (not the hotel) Welcome
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which are produced by clicking on the
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Expanding your Wikipedia experience
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Staying on
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Please, stick around! These easily navigable links should be indepesensable to a user that is up to the challenge of becoming more than just a [[Single Purpose Edit.
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Buster Seven Talk 16:03, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Method
[edit]Insert one of the following templates at the new joiner's talk page:
- {{subst:Welcome kitten}} — adds the signature automatically but does not create a new section; so, create a new section with a header first, then add the template.
- {{subst:Welcome cookie}} — adds the signature automatically but does not create a new section; so, create a new section with a header first, then add the template.
- {{subst:Welcome award}}<br>~~~~ — creates a new Welcome! section but requires the signature, as shown.
- {{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}} — is very detailed, and can be used for IPs. Adds the signature automatically but does not create a new section; so, create a new section with a header first, then add the template.
Usage attatched to tomasbat welcome
[edit]The template won't work correctly unless you specify your username; so add the following to the new user's talk page:
{{subst:User:TomasBat/Welcome|Your username here}}
Replacing "Your username here" with your actual username.
Also, you may add an additional comment by adding the following to the new user's talk page:
{{subst:User:TomasBat/Welcome|Your username here|Your additional comment here}}
Replacing "Your username here" with your actual username and "Your additional comment here" with your actual additional comment.
Note: The template won't work correctly if you do not subst: it.
How references work
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Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>
- b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";
== References ==
{{reflist}}
(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)
To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Buster7/reftest and try it out.
Named references
[edit]Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>
Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.
Citation templates
[edit]You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;
Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
| last = Smith
| first = John
| title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
| publication-date = 2001
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| page = 125
| isbn = 0-521-37169-4
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</ref>
Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.
For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.
Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!
[edit]You might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well all by itself. For those it can;t do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually. Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), bit, if not, just open the page yourself and choose soemthing appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 11:15, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
