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Yo

Welcome! I'm mid-way through my dinner (it's nearly 8pm) but let me welcome you personally to this amazing project, and thank you for your message. I'm more than happy to help mentor you, and look forward to working with you from now on. Let me know what your interests are here on Wikipedia, your experiences of editing or other users, and by all means, email me if you need direct advice. Final thing, when you write something on a "talk" page, please try to remember to add four tildes (~~~~) as that will sign your name and add a date/time so we all know who said what and when. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 19:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi again Nicole, I hope you're well. Just thought I'd say hello and give you some feedback on some of your recent work. Let's take this edit:

• You haven't provided direct references for the text you've added, instead just a raw URL (i.e. www.ehow.com). When you add just a general reference like that, it's usually in the "External links" section, and you would normally link to a sub-page of that site, rather than the homepage, to be a bit more specific. Also, we tend to avoid bare URLs, so you could format it more like [www.ehow.com ehow.com].
• Be careful that sites you use to reference anything are considered reliable by Wikipedia.
• It's generally a lot better to reference those claims specifically using the <ref> ... </ref> tags. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, please see below for some hints.
• You wikilink native. If you check this page out, it's actually what we call a "disambiguation page", a page which mainly just exists to link to more specific varients of the word you've linked. In this case, you should link to the Indigenous (ecology) page. You can still say native, by "pipelinking", like this: [[Indigenous (ecology)|native]] which gives you a link which looks like this: native. A more specific link is usually the best way forward!
• You used the edit summary well, good work.

Keep up the good stuff, let me know if you need any specific help, otherwise I'll pop by another time for more suggestions. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 13:33, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

References

How references work

Simple references These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Guidonm/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Consider using citation templates as well. (Another tutorial for that here:Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners with citation templates)

Info drought etc

Hey Nicole, hope you're well. I'm just on my way to bed (it's late here, and bloody cold) but I got your message so I thought I'd quickly respond. As for picking a suitable topic for your class, I'm afraid that's something you need to work out with your teacher. I'm here to make sure you get the best from Wikipedia, and to help you with your edits, but for a specific article, you'd need to make that choice yourself. Rest assured whatever you choose, I'll be available to help out. The Rambling Man (talk) 23:16, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Update

Hi Nicole, hope everything is good with you. I've noticed you haven't really got "stuck in" yet. What's going on? I know you were having trouble picking a topic, but I guess you really need to get moving with one now? Let me know how I can help you. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 17:30, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Brookings Institution

Hi! I was reading the Brookings Institution article recently when I got a bit confused. What is the relation of the Hamilton Project to Brookings? I looked at the edit history, and you say you added information about the article's subject, the Hamilton Project, though the article's actual subject is the Brookings Institution. Was that a mistake, or is the article really supposed to be about the Hamilton Project? Thanks. 71.184.241.68 (talk) 01:16, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

I think it would work well as a section of the Brookings article, perhaps after the "history" section (or part of it?). It could also work as a stub; I'm not sure how much stubs are discouraged on Wikipedia. Whatever you think, considering you know a lot about it :) 71.184.241.68 (talk) 21:49, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

March 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Brookings Institution. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.JDCMAN (talk) 19:11, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Hey

Hey Nicole, hope things are going okay with you? You haven't edited much for a while, let me know if I can help you? All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:10, 5 May 2011 (UTC)