Simba Jones
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Feel Free to Directly contact me!!! I Love helping you guys out!! After all I was new here about 3 months ago!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 07:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
~~ Simba 21:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Gee, thanks for the personalized welcome ¬_¬ ("dear pagename")
In all seriousness, though, thanks for starting my talk page and providing that useful list of links. I suppose I created my account prematurely, as I won't start making and editing pages for a few days yet, but I figured if I didn't get my registration done with sooner or later, I'd procrastinate forever. I do hope to get started soon, though, I'm eager to contribute, for the sake of the site and for my own personal enjoyment as well. Oh and uh, excuse the use of hr tags, I'm still gettin' a feel for how I want to format my replies in Talk pages. Any suggestions? I know that I like having two tildes before my bolded signiture (that's me; gotta stand out) and that I want my signiture to predicate the content of my reply, rather than being placed at the end, but I'm not so sure as to how to seperate my text from everyone else's. I've noticed it's common to indent a reply, but once the edge of the page is reached, the indents "reset" and I think that becomes bothersome. If it was the trend to put one's signiture before the text one's adding, as opposed to after it, it'd be easy to see who's posting what from the get-go, but most people put theirs at the end, and some people (unregistered and registered users) don't sign at all, so for now, I'll use these hr tags to section off my replies. Again, I'm open to suggestion, and will probably think up some things on my own, as well.
By the way, how do you go about getting a Desk? I don't want one, as I'm new (and further, feel unqualified to be on the Cleanup Taskforce) -- I'm just curious.