User talk:Rose garcia8808

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 * Hi Rose garcia8808! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 03:00, Monday, April 18, 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! (and also reference formatting)
Hello Rose garcia8808! Welcome to Wikipedia! I was glad to see someone taking an interest in the 2015 United States E. coli outbreak. It needs a lot of work. However, as you edit and as you get used to things around here, please be mindful of the way things are formatted. For instance, in this edit you add a (great) reference to some items in the infobox. Yay references! However, when you add references, please please format them correctly. If you're not entirely sure how to format references, just look for other references in the article! For instance, the first reference in the text of this article just so happens to be the very reference you added! And it's already formatted correctly! So you could have easily just added reference to that (and I encourage you to go back and do so!) by replacing your references with the text " " (this will automatically paste in the correctly-formatted reference with that name). Later, when someone tagged the epidemiology section as having no references, you pasted in this reference which is just a link to the CDC home page and clearly doesn't verify the text in the section.

I know it can be a pain in the butt sometimes, but please try to always add well-formatted references that verify material you add to the encyclopedia (remember, every time someone adds a poorly-referenced claim, an angel loses its wings and plummets into the ocean).

That said, welcome aboard! I hope (based on your edits) that you're interested in disease outbreaks or (even better) microbiology broadly! There's a bit of a learning curve here, with lots of policies and formatting to learn, but I hope you stick it out and stay around to help improve the encyclopedia! So much to be done! So few volunteers! Getting started can be a challenging time, so if you have any questions about editing (or about anything at all) feel free to leave me a message at my talk page or you can ask a question at Teahouse which is meant to be a forum for newcomers to ask questions. If you want to practice formatting before you add things to a page, please use your sandbox which you are welcome to edit to your heart's content without anyone bugging you about it. Anyway, good luck with everything, and happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 02:20, 19 April 2016 (UTC)