User talk:740600p

Welcome
Hello there! I'd like to take some time to welcome you to Wikipedia and give you some advice on editing.

First off, thank you for creating the article Northern Utah. Being a Utah resident myself, I think it is important to have an article on the most populous and diverse part of the state. I had no idea we didn't already have an article on this topic. I'm sure you've made the start of what could become a great Utah article.

I noticed that when you made the article, you made links to other Wikipedia articles by using the full URL (an "external link"). However, this isn't necessary. One of the features of the Wikipedia software is that you can create internal links to other Wikipedia articles by enclosing the title of the article in two brackets, like this. For example, to link to the article on Utah, you would type Utah, which would return: Utah.

Also, it is fantastic that you have provided references from the internet in your article. While the method you used to put the references in the article (again using external links) is technically valid, the generally accepted method is to enclose the URL in tags. This creates a footnote. Then, create a "references" section, and type to make a list of the footnotes. For more on this, see this page. I've taken the liberty of putting your references on Northern Utah into footnotes.

There is so much more than this to editing Wikipedia; you'll probably want to take a look at the tutorial Wikipedia has provided. If you have any questions, do feel free to ask me on my talk page, or just put on this page along with your question and someone will be along to help you shortly. Thank you, and again, welcome to Wikipedia! Robert Skyhawk (Talk) 05:09, 3 December 2008 (UTC)