Azafar8
Welcome!
editHello, Azafar8, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Nikkimaria (talk) 22:05, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Azafar. It's possible to edit an article or page directly if you prefer; the intention of the sandbox is to give you a place to experiment and work out the formatting of your contribution - like a draft. As to your second question, I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, could you clarify? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:59, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, when you're posting a link to your course page, look at the example Prof. Haffie provided: a link to the article and a description of what change you made. So if you edited Canada, for example, you might post something like "Canada: added a sentence with citation. User:Azafar8 (talk 03:34, 5 October 2012 (UTC)". Does that make sense? If you don't remember the name of the article you edited, go to Special:MyContributions - this is a list of all the edits you've made. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:04, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- Square brackets, not curly, and don't forget to sign! Nikkimaria (talk) 02:20, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- For where the information comes from, check out the links another editor posted in the message below - you should, as far as possible, include secondary sources for anything you write on Wikipedia, not just rely on your own knowledge. Other people need to be able to verify that what you're writing is accurate. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:25, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, when you're posting a link to your course page, look at the example Prof. Haffie provided: a link to the article and a description of what change you made. So if you edited Canada, for example, you might post something like "Canada: added a sentence with citation. User:Azafar8 (talk 03:34, 5 October 2012 (UTC)". Does that make sense? If you don't remember the name of the article you edited, go to Special:MyContributions - this is a list of all the edits you've made. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:04, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Use references
edit- Did you read the links below'?
This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include references listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you have used to write or expand articles. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See: Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability for more information.Moxy (talk) 19:09, 3 October 2012 (UTC)