Periodyssey

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Hello, Periodyssey! 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! Dougweller (talk) 09:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests 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 Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for 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 Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists 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

January 2014

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. No big deal, just remember this in the future. And again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 09:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Answers

Your account becomes authorised after 10 edits and four days. See WP:ACCOUNT. We have various places you can ask for help, but you might want to use the WP:HELPDESK for questions about editing, eg uploading. There is also Wikipedia:New contributors' help page which has other suggestions. I've asked the editor who reverted you to explain why, but meanwhile I've restored your edit sans image as I can't figure out how to get the size right - it may not be possible with that image. You don't need the url, click edit on a section with an image and you can see the syntax. Sorry I really do not have time to adopt you, but you can always ask me where to get guidance or simple questions. Dougweller (talk) 21:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

howdy

Hello Periodyssey, great name. :-)   You can call me 74 please. Noticed your question on Doug's page when I was trying to chase down User:Barepunts. The advice from Doug is solid, but I would add that there is a newfangled place for fast answers to questions called WP:TEAHOUSE that is worth trying. Please don't tell the helpdesk folks I said anything, they have my highest respect, but *teahouse* people get paid the big bucks... fifty times more than helpdesk folks are paid... and are therefore extra-super friendly. (Mention my name and your second cup of virtual tea is on the house.) <grin> Also, if you get stuck, or think you may need a small novel rather than a "quick" answer, feel free to leave me a message on my talkpage. Hope this helps, thanks for improving wikipedia. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 06:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Periodyssey, your editing suggestions are on the way

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The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.

The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.

Solution 1: Reset your signature to the default:

1. Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
2. Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
3. Remove anything in the Signature: text box. (It might already be empty.)
4. Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page. (The red "Restore all default settings" button will reset all of your preference settings, not just the signature.)

Solution 2: Fix your custom signature:

1. Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
2. Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
3. Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)