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Welcome Nolansfood!
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To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can create your own personal sandbox for use any time. It's perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put {{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.

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Sincerely, Jauerbackdude?/dude. (Leave me a message) 13:40, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jauerbackdude?/dude. 13:40, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is helpful, thank you Nolansfood (talk) 18:42, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the map you're adding to the subject article is looking pretty good. For future reference, though, it may work out better to perfect a map like this in your sandbox before copying over into an article. That would cause less disruption to the article editing process, and also be reasonably complete with all the pins available for the most benefit for the readers. Stefen Towers among the rest! GabGruntwerk 22:54, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you send me a guide on how to use the sandbox? I haven't tried that yet. Nolansfood (talk) 22:58, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The sandbox is really just a page you can edit (mostly) freely for testing purposes, and your primary one is here: User:Nolansfood/sandbox. You can produce the same map in the sandbox page as if it's an article, and then when you feel it's in good shape, you can copy/paste it over to the article. Hope this helps. See Help: Sandbox for further info. Stefen Towers among the rest! GabGruntwerk 23:21, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]