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Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created is an unreferenced biography of a living person. The Wikipedia community has decided that all biographies of living persons (BLPs) created after 18 March 2010 must have reliable sources, or they can be deleted.

This is not a judgement of the quality or notability of your article. If someone has put a prod blp template on the article (click this link to see what it looks like), you have seven days to add at least one reliable source to the article. Once you have added at least one reliable source to the article, you can remove the template. (To learn more about what is a reliable source, read Reliable sources, and to learn how to cite sources, read Citing sources. Or if you want an easier newcomer's look at citing sources, read Help:External links and references first.)

Going over some of the pages below will help you get a sense of Wikipedia, and knowing about Wikipedia's most important policies will help keep you out of trouble here (click [show] to see the links):

Getting started:

Introduction – a great first look at Wikipedia

Wiki markup – talks about how to make bold and italic text and links

Tutorial – a tutorial on all things Wikipedia

Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual – a handy guide to Wikipedia Important policies:

Biographies of living persons – Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons

Reliable sources – Wikipedia's policy on what sources to use

NPOV – Wikipedia's neutral point-of-view policy for articles

Notability – talks about how to determine whether or not a subject is notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia

3RR – Wikipedia's three-revert rule, which says you shouldn't revert a single page more than 3 times in 24 hours

Deletion policy and Criteria for speedy deletion – two pages that talk about reasons for deleting an article. The second page talks about special reasons that allow pages to be deleted quickly and without discussion (attack pages, copyright violations, etc.)

Asking questions:

Questions – tells you where to ask questions

Help desk – a place to ask Wikipedia-related questions

Reference desk – a place to ask general-knowledge questions

Placing Help me on your talk page followed by a request will alert editors that you need help.

If you know what IRC is and how to use it, take a look at IRC to find out how to get help on Wikipedia's IRC channels. Article writing and editing:

Starting an article

Your first article – has tips and ticks for making your first article great

How to write a great article

Simplified Manual of Style – guidelines on writing style, what date formats to use, article layout, you name it

WikiProjects – describes different WikiProjects (projects that focus on article writing or maintenance for a specific topic)

Vandalism – what vandalism is and how to revert it I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!