User talk:Phillip12345678910

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Hello, Phillip12345678910, 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! GabeIglesia (talk) 15:07, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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San Diego street lights
Hello, and thanks for all your work on articles about San Diego! I wanted to let you know, though, that I changed the information you added to the San Diego article about street lights. That's because the references you supplied show that San Diego actually did NOT upgrade to LED lights, as Los Angeles did; San Diego upgraded to induction lighting. If you'd like to talk about this, there's a discussion at Talk:San Diego. Please discuss it there before adding any of the information back.

BTW I appreciate your efforts to add references to support what you add; that's very important here. You might want to learn how to cite them as references, which is better than simply using external links as you have been doing. You can read all about citing references here: Citing sources. A very easy way to do it is to use the "cite" button which appears in the row of buttons above the edit window. Just click on it, choose "web" or "news" or whatever is appropriate for that citation, and fill in the blanks. Then insert your cursor at the place in the text where you want the citation to go, and click "add citation". That's important! If you don't click "add citation" before saving the edit, the information will be lost and you will have to do it over.

I look forward to working with you on San Diego and other articles. You might want to join WikiProject San Diego, a group of editors who work on San Diego articles. And if you have any questions about how this place works, just ask me! --MelanieN (talk) 19:56, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Signing your name on talk pages
Hi, Phillip! I appreciate the fact that you are trying to sign your name to your comments on talk pages, but you aren't doing it right. You are putting in Phillip12345678910 but that's not a proper signature link; that would be the title of a wikipedia page with that name. If you want to hand-type your name, you have to do it as User:Phillip12345678910 to show that it's a username. Much better and easier is to let the system put in your signature for you. There's two ways to do that. One is to type four tildes like this ~. The tilde is the capital of the furthest left key on the top row of the keyboard. That will automatically add your name, date, and time, with clickable links to your user page and talk page. Even easier, when your cursor is at the end of your comments, just click on the signature icon above the edit window. It looks like part of a signature, in the middle of the row. Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 22:20, 3 February 2014 (UTC)