Wayne Stickles

Welcome!

Hello, Wayne Stickles, 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:

• Introduction and Getting started
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

You may also want to take the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit The Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 19:54, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Adventure

The Wikipedia Adventure is a small game that lets one practice the skills needed to edit Wikipedia. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:54, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

A summary of some important site policies and guidelines

• Noone owns any article here, or even their edits to articles. At the top of the edit page, it says "Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone," which means that if you don't want someone to change or even remove what you add, then you need to use another site.
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  • Don't edit war. Except in cases of clear-cut vandalism, do not revert changes to a page more than 3 times within a 24 hour period.
• "Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
  • We do not publish original thought nor original research. We're not a blog, we're not here to promote any ideology.
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Ian.thomson (talk) 19:54, 16 July 2016 (UTC)