User talk:Hanoachide

Hello Hanoachide, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! Benjaminstewart05 17:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello

Benjamin,

Thanks for the kind words. I enjoyed your page. Keep up the good work!

Shalom,

HaNoachide

WP:CITE

See the above page for policy (and examples!) on how to do citations for different kinds of articles. The basic recommendation is to follow the established conventions for the article's topic. -Fsotrain09 02:17, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Thanks

Benjamin, thanks for the welcome and the offer of help. To be honest I have no idea what I'm doing, but this is pretty fun.

Shalom,

HaNoachide

Thanks, you'll soon pick it up. Try reading some of the guidelines in the welcome message on this page and look at how things are formatted on the page, and you'll soon learn how everything works. I look forward to seeing your edits! Benjaminstewart05 18:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Question

Ben, One of the sites that I put up "High Council of B'nei Noah" can only be found if you type it in as High Council of B'nei Noah, however another article I've written "B'nei Noah" comes up whichever way I type it in. How can I fix this problem?

Thanks

Hanoahide

Hi there, well, I have added a redirect so that if you type it all in in lower case, it comes up with it. The problem here was that it was a long title, so the search engine for wikipedia might not direct you straight to the article, so when you make articles like that, it might be a good idea to add redirects for common spelling mistakes. For more on how to create redirects see this. If I haven't answered your question(!), then please feel free to retort and I will attempt to offer more explaination! - also it might not be a good idea to lay out an article in question and answer form, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout for more information on this. I will add the template {{wikify}} to it as well. Another thing, to make it easier and look better when you are writing messages, sign your messages with ~~~~. Thanks. Benjaminstewart05 17:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tips

You've started some good articles. However, I would like to remind you of two Wikipedia stylistic conventions. Main headers are actually second-class headers (i.e., ==Heading==); the ones with one equal sign on each side shouldn't really be used under any circumstances. In addition, on Wikipedia punctuation only goes inside quotes if it logically belongs there: "one", "two", "three", for example. This is the British usage, but Wikipedia still uses the American double quotes. —Wereon 19:11, 30 June 2006 (UTC) P.S. - I have left a reply to you on my talk page.[reply]