For your reference, I've added a note to the WP:CHU page requesting your attention. Did you add another request after discovering your first choice was unavailable? Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Sure, no problem. A good place to start would be Wikipedia:Tutorial, which gives some basic information about editing pages. The various symbols are part of wikitext (or "wikimarkup"; the link explains many of the functions). It's basically a simplified form of full HTML. The blue links are for pages within Wikipedia, and to create them, simply put [[ ]] square brackets around the word. So, if I wanted to link to the article on "Germany", I would format it like this: [[Germany]]. The end result is Germany. You can also pipe links, so the destination stays the same, but the link text is different. So for example, this:
I travelled to [[Germany|a very pleasant country]] today
becomes:
I travelled to a very pleasant country today.
This sort of linking is useful when a link is required, but it's piped for readable prose. Basically all the text in the edit box performs a HTML function. A lot of them are explained in the links above. See also Wikipedia:How to edit a page, which contain more information. Hope this helps. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 22:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello Wickipond! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to this article, it would greatly help us with the current 796 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{ unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:
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