User talk:H.A.

Thanks for the welcome

Hi. Thanks for the welcome and hope that this is the way to reply...? I'm still learning and have to admit that I find the help functions on wiki a bit of a maze - quite difficult to navigate. I tend to figure things out by seeing something that looks good to me and then looking at the edit view of the page to see how that author did something. I do realise though that means I could be copying bad style sometimes. I'm still working intensively on Operation Murambatsvina as you may have noticed.

Is it OK to work on it a bit at a time as I have been doing?. It just means the history page is going to be cluttered with my ID. Is that a problem?
Second, may I ask, how do you add more than one wikinews item at the foot of the page? Is it possible to have a wiki news template with bullet points listing different relevant articles or do I have to do something like the three entires here, which looks awkward to me?
Third, is it a hard and fast rule that news items should appear at the footer among 'External links'? Some of these articles are relevant to some of the sections, and I'd quite like them to appear alongside the relevant text there instead (sort of as they appear here)?

Hope you can help.

H.A. 11:07, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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