User talk:BloomingtonWriter

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Welcome
Welcome!

Hello, BloomingtonWriter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Elekhh (talk) 19:43, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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Mentoring
Hi Carrie, sure, I'm happy to be your mentor! I see you already had a good start with a number of test edits in your sandbox. If you have questions or need feedback on something, always feel free to contact me. Happy editing! --Elekhh (talk) 19:43, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Water trading
Hi! You are right, the water trading article -as any Wikipedia article- should provide an international perspective from a neutral point of view (i.e. not US perspective). If you are only going to write about water trading in the US, you can start by providing a comprehensive summary in the United States section. When that section becomes too long, or too detailed (i.e. State level legislation, issues of national relevance only, etc.), you can split off the section into a separate article (i.e. Water trading in the United States), while only retaining a short summary in the main article. The new article will be linked from the main article, as well as from other relevant articles (see Category:Water in the United States). Hope this helps. If you need further clarification don't hesitate to ask. Cheers. --Elekhh (talk) 23:53, 11 April 2011 (UTC) Hi BloomingtonWriter, I see you are progressing nicely. Remember that it is important to provide inline citations to new material you add to the article, so for instance for the "Conditions for a water market" section. If you have time, a small improvement would be to adjust the section titles to meet the manual of style (i.e. short titles, all in lower case except initial letter). Cheers, --Elekhh (talk) 06:55, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Conditions for a water market

The World Bank Water Wikipedia writing contest
Hi BloomingtonWriter, just letting you know about this writing competition, maybe you're interested. Deadline for registrattion is this Friday. All the best. --Elekhh (talk) 03:36, 10 May 2011 (UTC)