User talk:Pdberger

Welcome and advice from a freelancer

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Signing your posts
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or  located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  20:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Privacy
One of our rules here is that if somebody signs up for an account, their privacy is protected. This is an obvious whistleblower protection, as well as a protection for editors from countries where speaking truth to power (as we Quakers say) can be a route to a death sentence. Does this leave us open to jerks, spammers, spinmasters and liars? Of course: but this is "The free encyclopedia that anybody can edit", and that vulnerability is the price we pay for freedom. Feel free to contact me at my talk page or by e-mail, if you want to discuss anything about your current quest, or anything else Wikipedian! -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  20:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)