Semlady
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editHello, Semlady, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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before the question. Again, welcome! -- Ross HillTalk • Need Help? 19:55, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
December 2013
editHi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. 220 of Borg 12:09, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Student project
editHello, Semlady and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.
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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! --Tryptofish (talk) 16:37, 25 December 2013 (UTC)