User talk:Smgarrett1

Welcome Smgarrett1!

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Hello, Smgarrett1. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm Crtew, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.

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Sincerely, User:Crtew (talk) 18:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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Success!

Smgarrett1, Congrats! You have successfully created an account, edited your introduction to the Wikipedia community, inserted wikilinks and left a message. You're off to a great start! Have fun, Crtew (talk) 17:10, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Smgarrett1, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us!

I, and the rest of the hosts, would be more than happy to answer any questions you have! SarahStierch (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Adopt a Journalist assignment

Smgarrett1, Your assignment is to write about Shukri Abu al-Burghul from Syria. Good luck, Crtew (talk) 03:35, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Progress at this point

By now you should have ...

1. Written your notability statement.

2. Filled in your infobox.

3. Moved the material on your user page about your person under the "Adopt a Journalist" section under your user account. Copy that material, click on the red link of your journalist, and paste the material on that page!

4. Run your reflinks tool in the banner (by right clicking and creating a new tab). It might take a minute to complete the operation -- be patient. You will copy over the results from the tool tab you create to replace the existing ref tags in your article.

5. Taken the Wikipedia tutorial. After you do all of the above, you may begin writing your article.

Crtew (talk) 19:08, 9 October 2012 (UTC)