Lthrower

Hello, Lthrower! 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! Dlohcierekim 14:25, 15 December 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

Grateful Dead articles

Greetings, Lthrower. Thanks for your excellent work on articles related to the Grateful Dead and their albums. Also, here are a few minor suggestions for you to consider:

• A lot of people don't use them, but I'm a big fan of edit summaries. They really help other editors to quickly see what you did with each change. I'm really into using them myself.
• It can be helpful if an article is assigned to at least one WikiProject, to bring the article to the attention of interested editors. For example, to assign an article to WikiProject Albums, you would add their project template, {{Album}}, to the top of the article's talk page.
• There's an easy way to add an en dash or an em dash when editing an article. Below the "save page" button, and below where it says "do not copy text from other websites...", is a horizontal box. Make sure the drop-down is set to "insert". The first thing in the box is the en dash and the second thing is the em dash. Just click on one to add it to the article. Other drop-downs are also useful, especially "wiki markup".
• If you create a user page for yourself, your user name won't display in red in the edit history of an article. Some editors think that a red user name is a sign of an inexperienced editor, not that there's anything wrong with that. The contents of your user page can be pretty minimal if you want, as long as you have something there your name won't be red.

Like I said, these are minor suggestions, so feel free to use them or not, as you like. Overall I think you're doing a really nice job on the articles -- good formatting and markup, and, even more importantly, good content and references -- so, thanks again, and keep up the good work. (If you reply here I will see what you say.) — Mudwater ^(Talk) 15:46, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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