User talk:Chrislamic.State

Welcome!
Hello, Chrislamic.State, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! --Cúchullain t/ c 14:37, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Thank you very much Cúchullain! I look forward to learning more of the ropes here and hopefully one day becoming a useful member of this great community. Is there a way to make emoji here? Chrislamic.State (talk) 21:13, 5 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Looking forward to working with you. I'm not sure if there's a way to make emojis. Someone might know at the village pump.--Cúchullain t/ c 21:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Lightbulb.png You too sir! Let me know if this worked Chrislamic.State (talk) 22:30, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure did.--Cúchullain t/ c 22:34, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

More things...
Hello again, since you have been editing "under cover" before, you probably already know much about how things work around here, but just to be on the safe side, I'll just drop you a couple of more tips. Also feel free to ask any question you might have on my talk page, if I don't know the answer, I'll direct you to someone who does.

How to alert other editors
When someone is posting on your talk page you get an automatic notification. That notification is a red square followed by a long yellow box (for most browsers and settings). In all other cases you have to alert the other editor in some way, either by "ping" or by mentioning them in a link. This will result in a just the red box notification on that users pages. So even if you respond on your talk page you still have to alert the editor you are addressing. If you want to get hold of me you write resulting in  or W.carter resulting in W.carter and sign with the four "squiggles" ~ at the end and hit "Save". There are some more, but these are the basics. And when you ask something on someone's talk page, you also create a new section so your question don't get entangled in some other conversation. If you are having a conversation with another user on some page, it is also customary to add that page to your Watchlist in case someone in the discussion forgets to alert. The policy is to leave an answer on the same page as the question, keep the conversation intact unless there is some reason for moving it elsewhere. Like complicated questions at the Teahouse can be continued on the appropriate talk page.

Userpage
For making your user page look nice, see: User page design center. You can also "clone/borrow/steal" the code from someone else's user page. Just ensure that you change it enough that it does not look like you are trying to impersonate the other user. User pages is a good guide as to what kind of things are appropriate in user space. And when you use the work someone else has created, in the edit summary please attribute the work to them by naming the user you copied the content from. If you want to add userboxes you can start here: Userboxes. There are also many, many customized userboxes floating around on user pages in the Wikipedia, if you find one you fancy just copy the code from the page. If you are further interested in defining yourself and your style there is also the.


 * -- Cheers, w.carter -Talk  00:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot ! I was not wanting to be "under cover", but my IP address kept changing everywhere so I could not keep track of my edit history, in the end it seemed a Username would be best to keep track of things. I also noticed that people tend to take editors with Usernames more seriously in talk page discussions. Also I have sometimes come up with an idea which I have thought might be good on wikipedia but don't really know how developing the site works yet so thought if I have a username I can make some friends and find out where my talents might best fit in. All of your tips and advice are very welcome indeed! I still have so much to learn!! Chrislamic.State (talk) 02:02, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Ethnocide, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. '' Please familiarise yourself with WP:WORDS. We need to be careful as to how we present content. Cheers!'' Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:09, 7 January 2015 (UTC)