User talk:USAnne

Welcome

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RE: Welcome

Thank you, Manway!

--USAnne (talk) 04:45, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome, Anne. See you around the Wiki! Regards. --Man way 04:46, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse Invitation

Hello! USAnne, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 04:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Hello, USAnne. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by PrimeHunter (talk) 19:25, 2 October 2012 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

A few points on translation

Hi Anne, I didn't want to burden you with too much info at first, but since you're zipping right along, a few points:

It appears at João de Lemos that you're doing WP:Machine translation (GoogleTranslate, Babelfish, or similar). While it's certainly permissible to use those, one must review and clean-up the rough machine translation. Those machines are nowhere smooth enough to produce a full page of proper English, so they need fixes for grammar, mistransalted words, etc.

Thanks for annotating in the Edit Summary that it's a translation. Now that you've got that down, a few more steps to add in:
- At the bottom of the page, add, for example [[pt:João de Lemos]]; this will autolink to the Portuguese article, and vice-versa, so folks can use that left-margin menu to swap between languages.
- When you're using parentheses to indicate a term/title in another language, like "the book was called That Cat ([O Gato] Error: {{Langx}}: text has italic markup (help))" rather than type "Portuguese", use the following code so WP recognises it as a translation: {{langx|pt|''O Gato''}}
- On the Talk page of an article, leave a Template:Translated page marking, and links to any applicable wikiproject. For example:

{{translated page|pt|João de Lemos}} {{WPPORTUGAL}} {{WPBIO}}

I know it's a lot at first, but you seem to be handling it well, and this will all help make your translations smooth, easy to use and track, etc.

Nice work so far, and I'm sure it's improving with every shot! MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:22, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Matthew. You are very kind. I'll study a little more about the Wikipedia and follow your advices! --USAnne (talk) 21:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nao e' problema, sou feliz de te-ajudar. Entendo que, no primer, e' um poco confuso, mas com um poquinho de practica, faz facil. Lembra-se: sempre ajuda observar uma aritgo bem-avanzado (como George Washington, Brazil, etc.) pra averiguar comos se-utilizam os varios codigos, formates, e outros costumbres da Wikipedia. Tambem, pode se-introduzer na Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Brazil e Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Portugal. MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:11, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, USAnne. You have new messages at Manway's talk page.
Message added 13:38, 5 October 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Man way 13:38, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome

Your welcome, hope it helps you out :)Righteousskills (talk) 00:22, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, USAnne, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Righteousskills (talk) 17:47, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

USANNE, I replied to your request on my talk page, but wanted to post this template here. It provides links for creating an article. Righteousskills (talk) 17:49, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]