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Hello, EileenFlammable! 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 clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); 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! Gimme danger (talk) 19:07, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Please note that there is no need to change date formats. You can change how dates are presented in "my preferences" at the top right of any wikipage. For more information about date formatting, go here. --Gimme danger (talk) 19:07, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please don't change an actual endash (–) to &ndash ;. - Nunh-huh 23:55, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

October 2008

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Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.

--♦Tangerines♦·Talk 13:33, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Date formatting

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Hi,

please don't change the date format of articles. There is no guideline that dd Month yyyy has to be used instead of Month, dd yyyy. On the contrary, according to WP:MOSNUM#Dates, the existing formatting should be kept if there is not strong national tie to a contry that uses another format.

Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 12:07, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In a recent edit, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For subjects exclusively related to Britain (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the appropriate variety of English used there. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. Shadowjams (talk) 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]