User talk:Horsebrutality

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Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 22:40, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome and introduction

Hi, Horsebrutality. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Chzz ► 00:42, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Horsebrutality/test.

Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.

When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

-- Chzz ► 00:42, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Ah thank you! Horsebrutality (talk) 00:43, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ideas

There are so many diverse areas on Wikipedia, it depends very much on your personal tastes - some editors like to make minor fixes to articles, some write featured articles, others work 'behind the scenes' - checking new pages, deciding which articles to delete, and that sort of thing.

You might be interested in the cleanup campaign, requested articles, requests for feedback, or the huge backlog of tasks.

You could help out with peer reviews, look at the newest articles, or maybe just something random.

One of the best ways to get involved is to join some projects - you could browse them in projects, or look on the discussion page of articles and see which project groups they are in.

Hopefully, this will give you some ideas. Chzz ► 00:50, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

You have new messages

Hello, Horsebrutality. You have new messages at Chzz's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{user:chzz/tb}} template. File:Ico specie.png

Chzz ► 01:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Something about sausages

Hi there. This is a new test message, and it's a very important note about sausages. So, please reply below - you can indent your reply with a colon :, and remember to 'sign' with ~~~~.

Then, after you have replied, please go to my talk page, and leave me a brief note to tell me that you're replied. Cheers! Chzz ► 01:14, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is my exciting reply. I prefer snausages. Horsebrutality (talk) 01:18, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You should probably add them to the sausage wiki then :-) Chzz ► 01:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]