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Hello Name, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction. Please bear in mind that we are all people (except for the bots), even I am a person. As such, please treat us all with respect.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page, or ask ata the Teahouse, a collection of experienced editors.

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Finding your way around:

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Need help?

• Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
• Cheatsheet – quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes
• Wikipedia's 5 pillars – an overview of Wikipedia's foundations
• The Teahouse - a good place to ask questions, your queries will be answered by an experienced editor
• Adopt-a-user - consider getting adopted, that it, getting an experienced editor to help you around

• Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
• The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
• Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
• The step by step way to edit - a guide on how to edit, starting with the very basics
• Develop an article - help an article go from a stub class article to something more

How you can help:

• Contributing to Wikipedia – a guide on how you can help

• Community portal – Wikipedia's hub of activity

Getting started:

• Requested articles - a list of articles requested by other users
• FAQs - a list of questions that many new editors have before they start to edit
• The perfect article - a list of things which the perfect Wikipedia article contains

• Tips - a list of links to important pages about starting editing
• A tutorial - another guide on how to edit

Additional tips...

• Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.

• The Sandbox is useful if you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills. You have your own, personal one, located here

Welcome! Here, have a plate of fresh cookies

You are now a Registered Editor, and entitled to display this Service Badge.

Name, good luck, and have fun. – Matty.007 19:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hello Name, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction. Please bear in mind that we are all people (except for the bots), even I am a person. As such, please treat us all with respect.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page, or ask ata the Teahouse, a collection of experienced editors.

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Here are some more resources to help you as you explore and contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia...

Finding your way around:

• Table of contents

• Department directory

Need help?

• Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
• Cheatsheet – quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes
• Wikipedia's 5 pillars – an overview of Wikipedia's foundations
• The Teahouse - a good place to ask questions, your queries will be answered by an experienced editor
• Adopt-a-user - consider getting adopted, that it, getting an experienced editor to help you around

• Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
• The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
• Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia
• The step by step way to edit - a guide on how to edit, starting with the very basics
• Develop an article - help an article go from a stub class article to something more

How you can help:

• Contributing to Wikipedia – a guide on how you can help

• Community portal – Wikipedia's hub of activity

Getting started:

• Requested articles - a list of articles requested by other users
• FAQs - a list of questions that many new editors have before they start to edit
• The perfect article - a list of things which the perfect Wikipedia article contains

• Tips - a list of links to important pages about starting editing
• A tutorial - another guide on how to edit

Additional tips...

• Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.

• The Sandbox is useful if you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills. You have your own, personal one, located here

Welcome! Here, have a plate of fresh cookies

You are now a Registered Editor, and entitled to display this Service Badge.

Name, good luck, and have fun. – Matty.007 19:18, 12 July 2013 (UTC)