Thank You

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Thank you so much for the warm welcome! I really appreciate it, and I very much appreciate your links to the various parts of the website relating to standards and practices. I also enjoyed the links to the humor-related essays, which were not a thing I was aware existed prior.Mithranir (talk) 02:23, 7 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Bienvennue

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You mentioned on you user page that you are "here for a class project," presumably for your MLIS degree (I actually know someone who goes to Dalhousie). I do hope that you stay on with Wikipedia after your project is finished; Wikipedia is never finished... Here are some handy links:


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