User talk:Spudgrrl

Welcome!
Hello, Spudgrrl, 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:
 * Introduction and Getting started
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
 * Simplified Manual of Style

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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 to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! <--- The wording up to here is a canned message, but I am a real person choosing to send it to you. And I want to say congratulations, really, for getting started in Wikipedia with a new article that is surviving and improving. Far too many persons try to start here but are frustrated and discouraged by finding their contributions deleted and their Talk page filled with negative bot-generated complaints and warnings, usually before any real person finds their way to welcome them. I hope you will not be discouraged if/when you get some negative messages too, but rather let negativity slide off your back and keep on going. It is rewarding, you'll find, to make permanent contributions that change what the world knows (i.e., what is in Wikipedia = what is generally known, in my opinion). Keep up the good work! Cheers, -- do ncr  am  16:31, 27 August 2015 (UTC)