User talk:Joseph brockway

Welcome!
Hello, Joseph brockway, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I am pleased to present you with your very first service award, in recognition of becoming a Wikipedia contributor.

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Again, welcome! Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 23:46, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Creating your 'User page'
Dear Joseph, It is customary for us to welcome new joiners and I am pleased I was around when you contributed your first edit. I have added, in the section above, one of the Welcome templates which will give you some initial tips on how to find your way around the system as an editor, such as signing your posts by using four tildes ( ~ ). Another convention is that we indent successive posts into talk pages by adding an extra colon (:) each time; you can find this explained in more detail at WP:THREAD. There's quite a bit to get used to at first, but I would suggest that you take the time to follow the links in the Welcome! section above and you'll get familiar with these simple things soon enough! I would also suggest that you visit your User page (top left, next door to this Talk page), which is still appearing in red. As you will see when you get there, it currently says "Creating User:Joseph brockway" because you haven't actually created it yet; but all you need to do is simply enter some text (anything) and click the Save page button; your user page will then be created and appear in blue from then on. Once you've done that, you'll be able to personalize it to your heart's content later on, and you could look at any other editor's user page to see the many different ways of doing that. Finally, I am often around and you are most welcome to contact me any time; my commitment to you is that, if you so wish, I will try to help you with the initial learning curve and make you self-sufficient, as a productive editor, as soon as possible. Of course, you don't have to do any of these things but, assuming you aspire to become a regular contributor, then it's helpful to seek advice from experienced editors. In any case, I wish you well and hope you'll enjoy contributing to our encyclopedia! With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 00:09, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you
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Hi, Patrick. Thank you for the helpful tips. I started working on a page based on research I'm doing for my Ph.D. but then became overwhelmed with other work--I teach Spanish and am teaching summer classes.

Regards, Joseph Joseph brockway (talk) 19:35, 1 August 2016 (UTC)