Kitblake

Hi all. The talk typography tip says it's time to type tetra-tildes…

Kitblake (talk) 05:43, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Welcome messages!!

This user understands nothing to be absolute in the realm of quantum fluctuations.

Hi @Kitblake:! as you can see , I have posted several welcoming messages to your talk page, below. each of these have different numbers of links.

If you wish, you can simply use the welcome message that contains ten links to get yourself oriented. if you want, you can read the links and data in the other templates as well; alternately, if you don't wish to use them, that's totally okay, and you can delete them from your talk page if you wish to do so.

I hope that's helpful. feel free to let me know any questions, or if I can help. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 17:08, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

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Wow, thanks @Sm8900:! I feel very welcomed :D

It's going to take me awhile to work thru these, in parallel to other, analog tasks. But it's nice to have such pointers because I know the questions will inevitably be forming. I'll ping you!
–Kitblake (talk) 18:33, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome; from Teahouse!!

A cup of hot tea to welcome you!

Hello, Kitblake, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
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--Sm8900 (talk) 18:35, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Welcome, with ten links

Hello, Kitblake, and Welcome to Wikipedia!   

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

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Kitblake, good luck, and have fun. Sm8900 (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Welcome, with twenty links

Hello, Kitblake, and 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 at the help desk, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to help you get started. Happy editing! Sm8900 (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2020 (UTC) Getting started Introduction Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Finding your way around Table of contents Directories and indexes Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Simplified Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Our new user help forum, the Teahouse The Help Desk, for more advanced questions Help pages Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles How you can help Community Portal Join a WikiProject Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community

Welcome, with sixty links

help message with sixty links

Hello, Kitblake! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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 by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Sm8900 (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2020 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article The five pillars of Wikipedia • Simplified ruleset How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Directories and indexes Where to: ask questions • make requests Tip of the day Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style (Simplified) • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists The Signpost (Wikipedia's newspaper) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

new help page

New help page

Hi kit! hope all's going well. guess what, I just gave you your very own copy of a major help page.

you can view it at this address: user:kitblake/help.

basically, adding a slash after your user page name allows you to create enw pages, as sub-pages of your own user page!! you can do this any time. in this case, I created a new page at the address above, then copied and pasted all of the code from the page Help:introduction into that page.

so now you have your very own copy of that page. there is no actual functional difference between the original page, and the copy here, of course. I simply copied the page over, just to illustrate to you some of the myriad things that can be done here at wikipedia, simply by utilizing your own user space, and copying over the code from particularly useful pages. I hope that is helpful. feel free to be in touch.

by the way, if you want, I can also put collapsible boxes around the different help messages that I posted above on your talk page. by doing so, this would enable you to either view the information, or hide it any time you want, just for greater convenience. I may do that a little later, but I wanted to proceed one item at a time. I hope that's helpful. feel free to be in touch. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 01:20, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

First draft

I've setup a first draft document: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kitblake/draft_i Kitblake (talk) 05:35, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Review

Take a look at Wikipedia: community bulletin board

Welcome Kitblake!

Now that you've joined Wikipedia, there are 42,207,154 registered editors!

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

I'm Sm8900, 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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The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun!

Sincerely, -Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 13:45, 15 September 2021 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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-Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 13:45, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

note re new message

Hi Kit!! I decided to add one more welcome message to your talk page. as you can see, this one is much more visual, and much more interesting. hope you enjoy that!! ---Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 13:46, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Hey sm! Yeah, "much more visual" makes it "much more interesting"! (for me anyway :) Kitblake (talk) 10:51, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!

This user is a Registered Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

Hello, Kitblake, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I am pleased to present you with your very first service award, in recognition of becoming a Wikipedia contributor.

I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that may help you to get up to speed:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style
• The Signpost, our newspaper.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or .

Again, welcome! Sm8900 (talk) 13:43, 10 July 2024 (UTC)