Jassu86
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Welcome from mentor
editHi, Jassu86. I'm Qwyrxian, and I signed up to be the mentor for your group for Dr. Obar's class. If you have any questions, you can post them here or on my talk page. Let me know when your group starts working on the project; personally, I'd recommend starting to gather your information on a Sandbox page--that way, you can get it all in one place, even if it isn't organized or formatted yet. You have a different challenge than many of the other groups, because your subject already has a very extensive but not very well written article (I think, I only glanced at it). I'm not quite sure what your assignment is in a case like this; I'll check in with the coordinating ambassador. In any event, please contact me if you have any questions. Qwyrxian (talk) 11:19, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
- Just a helpful note: I recommend that you remove your contact email from your user page, otherwise, it can very easily be harvested by spambots crawling over pages, looking for email addresses. Instead, if you go to "My preferences" (the link is on the upper right side of every screen as long as you are logged in), there is a place there to put in your email address. Then, under that, if you click "Enable e-mail from other users", it will be possible for other people to email you through Wikipedia's system without you actually having to have your email address publicly visible. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Sandbox talk page
editYou know, it just occurred to me that you may not know that your sandbox has a talk page, on which I've been leaving messages about your updates. You can read those messages at User Talk:Jassu86/Sandbox. Let me know if you have any questions. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:46, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Oh, ok. I didn't notice those messages because wikipedia doesn't provide alerts for discussion.Jassu86 (talk) 13:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, they do, although it's not obvious. Every user can maintain a watchlist. Basically, for any page you're interested in "watching", you can just click the hollow star on the tool bar above the page (on your display, it's probably 2 places to the left of the Search box, maybe 1). When you do that, the page is added to your watchlist. Then, at the top right of the page, you should have a list of common links, starting with your username, then "My talk", "My preferences", and "My watchlist". If you click on my watchlist, what you'll see is a list of all of the most recent changes to pages that you are watching. It will also show changes to the talk pages of your watched pages. So, for example, I have both your User page and your Sandbox page on my watchlist. Whenever you (or anyone) makes a change to those, it shows up on my list. It's a very useful tool if you're want a list of pages that you're interested in and want to maintain. 00:50, 4 May 2011 (UTC)