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I wanted to say Welcome to Wikipedia!,Mark. I noticed your edits to Chalcatzingo and I hope you have the time, knowledge, and desire to make further additions to the Mesoamerican articles. Please footnote whenever possible (see WP:Footnotes). In fact, I have formalised one of your edits into the footnote form -- if you can tell me the title of Chapter 17, I can include that in the References as well.

Write me if you need help. Hope to see more of you around, Madman 03:01, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Chalcatzingo references, plus an invitation
Gidday Mark, thanks for your message at my talkpage. I had a go at further tweaking the inline citation and biblio reference for your chapter in the article, pls take a look and see if that was what you intended.

Don't worry too much about not getting the formatting and style conventions right the first time around. It's no problem, comparatively few wikipedia articles are 100% compliant to our internal style guides (and there are several approaches to choose from as far as referencing and citation presentations are concerned). We can always fix it up later, getting the content improved and some references provided, however formatted, is more relevant. As you go along I'm sure you'll pick up on the (sometimes arcane) methods and conventions of editing. Pls feel free to ask about any aspect that may be puzzling and we'd be happy to help, as there are a few 'tricks of the trade' which are not necessarily self-evident in the way that they work.

Many thanks, BTW, for your helpful additions and expansions to that article. It is always a pleasure to see qualified folks such as yourself contributing here. If (as I hope) you'll be able to continue on editing here at wikipedia, then you might be interested to help out at WikiProject Mesoamerica (aka WP:MESO), a collaboration of like-minded editors who have an expertise and/or general interest in Mesoamerican topics. User:Madman2001 who commented above is a valuable fellow WP:MESO contributor, for example.

As you may see from our project pages here, we look to improve the content, coverage and organisation of Mesoamerica-related articles, raise and discuss related issues and news, and generally try to help one another (and the wider editing community) out. At any one time there's generally around half-a-dozen or so folks regularly updating Mesoamerican topics, it tends to come and go as people move between topical interests and dependent on Real Life commitments. Participation is informal and there's no minimum quota or regularity of contributions. So if you're perchance interested then pls take a look around the project's pages (not all up to date, alas), ask a question or offer any comments/suggestions at the project's message board or to one of us directly; and if you wish to, add your name to the participant list.

You might also like to take a look at the listing of Mesoamerican citations and references which we are expanding. This contains a selection of pre-filled citation templates for a few references that might be useful in Mesoamerica-related articles, which can simply be copied and pasted into the 'References' section of the appropriate article (some minor modifications may be needed). These templates format the biblio references consistently, and so makes it easier than coding the formatting "by hand", as it were. For a full range of the generic citation/reference templates available, go to WP:CITET and you can also see how they work.

Anyways, thanks again for your contributions here, and happy editing - cheers! (also posted at your talkpage). --cjllw ʘ  TALK 07:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)