Hello, Andreasr2d2! Thank you for
your contributions. My name's
Airplaneman and I just wanted to say hi and Welcome to Wikipedia! You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of the world's largest encyclopædia. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on
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Airplanemantalk05:16, 10 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Hey Andreasr2d2! I noticed that you have requested
adoption on your
user page. I would love to adopt you! I'd love to help to get you started on your way to becoming a brilliant Wikipedia editor. If you'd like to accept my offer of adoption, click the 'edit this page button at the top of the page, reply to my comment here and then click 'save page'. I look forward to getting to know you better. See you soon,
ArcticNight07:38, 21 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Hi Andreas, sorry for the slow response. I've been semi-active recently and your talk page must have slipped through my watchlist. I'd love to get started on the road to making you a great editor! First of all, I'd just like to ask you a few questions so I know what to focus on during your adoption:
Which of the following describes you? Feel free to choose more than one. Don't worry if you don't know what some of the terms below mean - I will explain them in due course.
a) I know how to make grammar and spelling edits
b) I always use an edit summary
c) I know what a header is and know how to use them
d) I know how to reference something in the article space
e) Given the opportunity, I would know how to contribute to an Articles for Deletion discussion
f) I am familiar with the notability guideline
g) I feel confident submitting articles to Did You Know
Thanks for the response, Artic Night. I can do both a and b, but I'm a bit murky on the others. I would really like to learn how to edit articles for not only spelling and grammar, but also adding headers, citations, images, and such. I'm looking forward to learning a lot from you. Thank you once again!
Andreasr2d2 (
talk)
18:11, 18 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Hi Andreas, congratulations, they're all correct. However, usually headers are not capitalised throughout ('Early Life' should be 'Early life'). That's OK though, as it's only a minor thing, and you've got the basic skills to create headers now anyway. Now I'd like to teach you how to add something to your watchlist.
Click here and click 'watch', which appears a few places to the right of 'edit this page'. You have now added the page to your watchlist! That means that every time you or I edit that page, a record of this will appear on
your watchlist, which is accessible by clicking 'my watchlist' at the top right-hand corner of the page. I would suggest checking your watchlist regularly, as it will alert you to whether I have responded to your answers over at your adoption page. This will eliminate the need for us to talk on talk pages. Let me know if you need any more assistance with this. If not, simply go back to
your adoption page and respond to this message, which I have copied to over there.
ArcticNight05:06, 21 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Hi there, Andreasr2d2! Thought you might be interested in
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join the
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Please visit the project page to learn more about improving Wikipedia articles considered by other editors as based upon notable topics. ~~~~