Sam Hobbs

Congrats, and Welcome

Congrats Sam - hopefully this won't disappear anytime soon.

Talk pages are usually reserved for giving a space for other people to give you messages (like what I'm doing now). I'd recommend any personal information to be on your user page. However, everyone has their own tastes and their own way of doing things.

Allow me to copy the following welcome here - the links are just very useful sometimes:

Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your help! I hope you stay around for a while and help contribute some more. Here are a few pages that are good references as you get used to making edits on Wikipedia:

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style
• If you want a larger set of articles to look through, feel free to browse the Wikipedia:Topical index.
• If you are experimenting with wikitext and want a place to test how your edits look, you should check out the sandbox.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! When you leave messages on Talk pages or when voting, you can sign your name by leaving three tildes: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) leaves your user name and a timestamp. If you have any questions, you can look through the help pages, post a question at the village pump or leave me a question on my talk page.

Take care Sam, and happy editing! -JJLeahy 05:12, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, JJLeahy

Yes, I am still learning about WikiPedia.

On the topic of typical procedures, I am not sure whether to reply by editing your comments or to create a new discussion as I am doing now. Neither seems appropriate but I suppose I should look at other talk pages.

The problem with creating a new discussion is that I can't see your comments and it is difficult to remember all to reply to.

Thank you for explaining about the User pages; I put a little bit about me in this page mainly to have something here. Now that something is here I can put it (my user information) there.

It's best to reply by adding your text below the other person's comment. You can indent it by putting a colon (':') at the beginning of the line. This causes the software to indent the text. Comments on talk pages should always be signed, so it's possible to tell who they are from. You can sign the comment by adding four tildes at the end ("~~~~"). This causes the software to insert your name and the date and time, like this: Srleffler 00:45, 18 March 2006 (UTC).