Juliemandell

Welcome!

Hello, Juliemandell! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! GraemeL (talk) 18:38, 9 November 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Semi-protection

In case you did not understand that stuff about semi-protection, let me explain. Semi-protection stops editing by accounts which have not been confirmed. You will automatically be confirmed after you have made ten edits (vandals and other troublemakers usually get thrown out long before they get to ten). Only a small number of articles are semi-protected, and then only for a short time while they are being attacked. You can recognise them by the small padlock at top right. Go and find a few more things to correct on unprotected pages and you will soon be up to ten edits. Or tell us something about yourself on your user page, that counts as well. Again, welcome to Wikipedia! SpinningSpark 19:10, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a big problem with vandalism, because for the most part Wikipedia lets anybody edit anything. Certain areas of Wikipedia attract more vandalism than other parts, so we can apply various levels of protection to the vandal-prone areas. Since you are interested in Wind power, be sure to read the discussion on Talk:Wind power. You may also be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy, and displaying {{User WikiProject Energy}} on your user page. Wikipedia is incredibly complex, and different than anything most people have used before. You will need to read lots of our friendly manuals before much of anything starts to make sense around here. If you prefer to read books, get this one: Wikipedia - The Missing Manual. For a light introduction to Wikipedia, see:

• Poe, Marshall (2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 2008-08-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

You can practice editing by taking the tutorial. You'll find the cheat sheet useful at first, followed by Help:Editing and Help:Wikitext examples. I recommend against trying to create entirely new articles from scratch until you have at least 100 edits, and preferably 500. New articles by new users have a high rate of deletion. --Teratornis (talk) 19:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)