User:Michael180
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[edit] Welcome Message
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- Please read the article describing how to edit a page and feel free to experiment in the Sandbox. Also please read about writting in Simple English.
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Good luck!
michael180
P.S. One last helpful hint. To sign your posts, like use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).
[edit] Here is some info I copied from Netoholic
- Article creation
- Wikipedia:Basic English alphabetical wordlist
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
- Wikipedia:Requested articles
[edit] Here are some links to useful pages:
- Help:How to edit - special way of typing for Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:How to write Simple English articles - advice for your writing
- Wikipedia:Examples of simpler English - specific examples.
- Wikipedia:Bug reports - problems with the software
- Wikipedia:Cleanup - a list of pages that need help!
- Wikipedia:Copyrights - remember not to add text that belongs to someone else
- Wikipedia:Glossary - a glossary of commonly used Wikipedia terms
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view - everything you write should be NPOV
- Wikipedia:Peer review - ask others to look at your work here
- Wikipedia:Policy - rules that we've agreed to follow
- Wikipedia:Proposed deletions - list of pages you think should be deleted
- Wikipedia:Requested articles - pages that people would like to be written
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (simple version) - everything you write here is done under this licence
- Wikipedia:Sandbox - where you can practice editing
- Wikipedia:Simple talk - a place to ask for help or talk with other Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Template messages - text you can use that is the same in many pages
- Wikipedia:Vandalism - learn how to fight vandalism
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress - to report vandals
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - what you shouldn't be writing
- Special:Newpages - pages created recently
- Special:Ancientpages - pages created long ago that might need work
- Special:Longpages - pages that are the longest
- Special:Shortpages - pages that are the shortest