User talk:BLu

Welcome
 Hello, BLu, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

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BLu, good luck, and have fun. Cotton2 (talk) 21:20, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Afro-Haitians. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. '' Please don't remove templates only recently applied without discussion. As it stands, the article is far more comprehensible than it was, but it still needs quite a bit of work to bring it up to encyclopaedic standard. Remember that you're encouraged to be BOLD, but WP:CAREFUL. Cheers.'' Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:25, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I actually did intentionally remove the flag as a result of not fully being aware of the policy surrounding that. I'll keep what you've said in mind are be more mindful of this in the future. Thanks for your help!--bLu (talk) 21:44, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Cheers, BLu... and not a problem. I realised that you removed the template in good faith, and you were actually welcome to do so, but it's more a matter of evaluating things in terms of how recently it was templated, etc. It does take a little time - and a steep learning curve - to get your head around how Wikipedia works. Welcome aboard, and I hope it's smooth sailing for you for the better part! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:18, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi BLu! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 02:18, Thursday, October 20, 2016 (UTC)