User talk:Edthed

Welcome!

Hello, Edthed, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 20:05, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Edthed. You have new messages at JohnCD's talk page.
Message added 20:34, 15 November 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Advice: markup, help, adoption

I have added a bit to the reply on my talk page: as you may like to refer to it, I'll repeat it here. To enter an en-dash, you type – - see WP:Cheatsheet for a short guide to Wiki markup, and Help:Wiki markup for the full detail.

You greeted me as your assigned mentor. I'm sorry, but I am only the person who saw that you were a new user and added a Welcome message. While I will be happy to answer any questions you have, I am not in a good position to be a formal mentor, because I am going to be away travelling for much of the rest of the year, and I am trying to scale down my Wikipedia activities to prepare for that. In general, if you need help, you can ask a question at the WP:Help desk, or put {{helpme}} on this talk page with a question below it. One thing to try first is to look for a relevant help page: if you want to know about something on Wikipedia, say (to take an imaginary example) OOGLEs, it is always worth typing "WP:OOGLE" or "Help:OOGLE" into the search box and seeing what comes up. So, to take a real example, WP:TABLE will tell you about tables, and Help:TABLE gives more information about how to make them.

If you would like a more formal mentor, see WP:Adopt-a-user for how to find one. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:01, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hi

Hello! I see you have an interest in the royal navy. Sandpiper (talk) 19:05, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

November 2011

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to World War II, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 20:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to World War II. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 20:22, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@UncleBubba -- Thank you for your guidance. I am a professional editor, but am still very new at WikiEditing. I am mostly interested in simply being helpful, cleaning things up here and there. I thought the corrections I made were pretty innocuous. If you have time, could you tell me which changes I made went beyond the "minor edit" level, so I will know better in the future? Thanks again. Edthed (talk) 20:19, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]