User talk:Boreddude

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Thanks for the message. Always good to welcome fellow contributors to the cause :) Just a heads-up: Wikipedia has loads of policies and guidelines which govern what is and isn't appropriate content for an article. You basically learn as you go along, but sooner or later you're gonna run into some of them when someone removes or "reverts" your contributions. Don't take it personally. If you ever need help just message me again on my talk page. The quickest way to learn how to do things like bold, italic, sub-headings, tables etc. is to find a page that has it and click "edit this page" at the top (you can do it with this very page). You'll be able to see the markup that's used to do it.

If you're looking to help with South African articles, check out Category:South Africa and see if anything grabs your fancy. Four VERY important policies/guidelines (out of the many) to know before you start though: WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NPOV and WP:NOR, without which anyone can (and will) simply remove your contributions.

Like I say, drop me a line if you get stuck. There are also plenty of other South African Wikipedians here. The quickest way to find some is to check out the "history" of any South Africa-related article to see who's contributing, they are likely to be South African. BTW if you want to sign your posts (it is courtesy to always do so on talk pages) just add four tildes like so: ~ which expands into your username and date like so: Zunaid 10:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)