User talk:Aburnett412

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Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm Pigsonthewing, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type  here on your talk page, and someone will try to help. Remember to always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes   at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your, a link to this talk) page, and a timestamp. The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun! To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. ou can  for use any time. Perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you  put  on.

 Sincerely, Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:37, 5 January 2016 (UTC)   [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pigsonthewing&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:37, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Sandbox
I've had to revert a to Talk:Doing gender as not constructive. From your contribution history, you appear to be familiar with the concept of the Sandbox, so please follow the guidelines when you wish to make test edits. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 21:07, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 23:38, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Welcome aboard!
I also work a lot with students. Here are a few useful tips that I've found made the experience better for all:

I have them use the Wikipedia Adventure before they start editing: The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page

It is also a courtesy to the many other projects on Wikipedia to put a note on the talk page indicating to which Wikipedia Project an article might be of interest. To find, a list of WikiProjects, see: WikiProject_Council/Directory --- TeriEmbrey (talk) 19:54, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Gender gap
Here's some of the work to close the gender gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force -- TeriEmbrey (talk) 19:57, 1 May 2017 (UTC)