User talk:Lbellows

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Lbellows! I am Cirt and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

-- Cirt (talk) 01:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Lbellows,

Thanks for being part of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative! I'm LiAnna Davis, the communications associate for the Initiative, and I wanted to let you know that we have a Facebook page, facebook.com/WikipediaOnCampus designed to keep students like you up to date on the latest news, events, photos, videos, and hints to help you edit. If you're on Facebook, please check it out!

Happy editing! -- Ldavis (Public Policy) (talk) 22:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Public policy help

Hi Laura -- nice to meet you; sure, I'll be glad to help. Please feel free to ask any questions at my talk page. If you can tell me which articles you are considering working on I'll take a look, and maybe we can talk about what could be done to improve them. I looked at your recent edits and saw your note at Talk:Education in the United States; is that a page you plan to improve? I look forward to working with you! Mike Christie (talk) 01:05, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm glad to see you're already jumping in at talk pages and making comments; a lot of new users get nervous about making a mistake, but there's really no such thing as a mistake here -- any edit can be reversed, or improved. My own experience is that the best way to learn is to have something you actually want to add to an article. An exercise for its own sake is usually not very interesting, but if you can see a way to improve an article, do it.

I'm also impressed to see you add a properly formatted reference almost immediately, to the suburbanization article. I'm not sure you're going to need much mentoring .... However, I did notice you didn't sign at Talk:Suburbanization; looks like you just pasted in the text of your signature? If you sign with four tildes, like so: ~~~~ then the system will automatically add your signature, and will include a link to your talk page, which makes it easier for other editors to talk to you. Mike Christie (talk) 01:41, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reference error

Hi Lbellows! My name is Evangeline and I'm the online coordinator for the Urban Economic Development class. I was looking through your draft and it looks quite good. I'm glad to see you using the wiki-table. It's also good to see you using references.

However, I noticed a slight problem in them. If you scroll down to the 'References' section, you'll see an error message that resulted from failure to use the |title= parameter. The title parameter is basically for the title of the article cited as a reference.

A title is needed so it'll be great if you can put in |title= after the |url= parameter. If you are having trouble with it or have any questions, please feel free to message me or one of the online ambassadors. Cheers, Bejinhan talks 07:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pathways Out of Poverty

Just a quick note to saw that you've done a great job on the Pathways out of Poverty article. I did a little formatting clean up, but there wasn't much to do -- you've got good data in there, well organized, with good sourcing. Very nice work. Mike Christie (talk – library) 01:45, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]