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Welcome Baloug!

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Hello, Baloug. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions!

I'm Pdebee, 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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To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can create your own private sandbox for use any time. Perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put {{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.

Sincerely, Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 12:56, 5 July 2016 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)Reply

Creating your 'User page'

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Dear Baloug,  

Please find, in the section above, one of the Welcome templates which will give you some initial tips on how to find your way around the system as an editor, such as signing your posts on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~).
Another convention is that we indent successive posts into talk pages by adding an extra colon (:) each time; you can find this explained in more detail at WP:THREAD.
There's quite a bit to get used to at first, but I would suggest that you take the time to follow the links in the Welcome! section above and you'll get familiar with these simple things soon enough!  
I would also suggest that you visit your User page (top left, next door to this Talk page), which is still appearing in red. As you will see when you get there, it currently says "Creating User:Baloug" because you haven't actually created it yet; but all you need to do is simply enter some text (anything) and click the Save page button; your user page will then be created and appear in blue from then on. Once you've done that, you'll be able to personalize it to your heart's content later on, and you could look at any other editor's user page to see the many different ways of doing that.
In any case, I wish you well and hope you'll enjoy contributing to our encyclopedia!  
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 13:00, 5 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Pdebee: Thanks very much for you welcome, Patrick! I've taken a look at the links in the Welcome to Wikipedia! section (and bookmarked them), and I've also created my user page. I'll try and learn more about Wikipedia and its rules and recommendations as I go a-contributing.   Baloug (talk) 17:40, 5 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
Dear Baloug,  
You're most welcome! Very best wishes of success with your current and future projects here at the Wiki, and thank you once again for your contributions to our encyclopedia.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 09:34, 6 July 2016 (UTC)Reply