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Hello Jdslate, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Jdslate, good luck, and have fun. --Sophus Bie ^(talk) 09:41, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Jdslate!

I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!

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Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!

Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 23:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Capitalization of headings

Hi JD. Thanks for your contributions to the Republican Party of Louisiana article. I have point out though that you are using incorrect capitalization on the headings of the article. I fixed this once before in November, but I see you're doing it again, so I'm going to ask you to fix your own work this time.

The Wikipedia style for capitalizing headings is to use "sentence case" instead of "title case", e.g.,

Important things to know about this subject

not:

Important Things to Know About This Subject

This may be unfamiliar to many editors who believe that or have been taught that "title case is the right way to capitalize headings". It isn't the "right way", it is one style. Wikipedia has, for better or worse, chosen to follow a different style, i.e., capitalize the heading the same way you would capitalize any sentence:

• capitalize the first word,
• capitalize any proper nouns (people, places, organizations), and
• begin all other words with lower case letters.

See WP:MSH for more information. Thanks, Ground Zero | t 02:22, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Ground Zero | t 15:21, 20 December 2011 (UTC)