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Welcome to Wikipedia

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• Main Introduction — What is Wikipedia?
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• What Wikipedia is not - even though everyone can edit it, Wikipedia is still an encyclopedia.

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• Check out Help:Watching pages. Your own Watchlist can become your favorite place to visit.
• If you wish to express an opinion or make a comment, Where to ask questions will point you in the correct direction.
• If you would like to edit an article, the Basic tutorial will show you how, and How to help will give you some ideas for things to edit.
• If you would like to create a new article, Starting an article will explain how to create a new page, with tips for success and a link to Wikipedia's Article Wizard, which can guide you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
• For more support and some friendly contacts to get you started, the Editors' Welcome page or the Wikipedia:Teahouse page could be your next stop!

See also

• Help:Starting editing

Good luck and happy editing.```Buster Seven Talk 15:39, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

March 2013

Hello, I'm Theroadislong. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Topsham, Devon, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 16:21, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
2. With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button ( or ) located above the edit window.

This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 16:45, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Please stop using talk pages such as Talk:Vikings for general discussion of the topic. They are for discussion related to improving the article; not for use as a forum or chat room. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. See here for more information. Thank you. Saddhiyama (talk) 19:32, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

ANI notice

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Saddhiyama (talk) 20:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

• Let me add to the warning above about using talk pages improperly. Talk pages are used to discuss ways of improving the articles, not to write personal theses about the subject matter. With a handful of exceptions, the only edits you have made since coming here are to article talk pages, and those edits have been inappropriate. Some of the few article edits have also been problematic as they added WP:OR to the article. Those have been reverted. Consider this a final warning that if you continue to use Wikipedia in this way, you risk being blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:40, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

• I would also note that while we can't block someone for action on another language Wikipedia, we are not blind and we can't help but to take their overall behavior on the project when determining a length of a block. Something to ponder. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 23:43, 23 March 2013 (UTC)