Lynda Nelson

Hello Lynda Nelson, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using 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 facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC) Getting started Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page How you can help Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

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Hi, and (as it says above) welcome to Wikipedia. :) Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can contribute to, so you are more than welcome to contribute to any article you like here. You're also quite right that Siberian (cat) could use some help. (In fact, probably many articles on cats can use help. If you're interested in them in general, you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats to see if there are other articles in need of assistance.) While some contributors naturally gravitate towards articles in areas of interest to them, nobody controls an article, so you can feel free to just pitch in. The welcome message above includes some information that might help you in getting involved, but don't let it overwhelm you. :) I would recommend that if you're going to look at any one of those links, Wikipedia:Five pillars would be the one to look at. It kind of boils everything down to a few paragraphs. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance to you as you get involved. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. You don't need anybody's approval. Each page can be edited (except in rare cases where they are protected from vandalism; this page is not). There is an "edit" link for each section, including the lead, or at the top panel of the page an "edit" section for the entire page. I'm not sure which section you're having trouble with--the lead? The "edit" button for that is tucked up and to the right hand side of the page, but, again, if you can't find it, you can simply choose "edit this page" to open the whole thing at once.

Just as a general pointer, when you do edit, please make a note in the box right above where it says "save page" giving some short indication of what you're doing. We call this an "edit summary", and it is particularly helpful when future contributors want to trace when and where something appeared in an article. Let me know if I can be of any help. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:14, 14 October 2008 (UTC)