User talk:Wiki authenticator 1

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 20:22, 25 April 2014 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 20:22, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Help?
What do you need help about? Nthep (talk) 20:32, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Glad you are here.
Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your note at the Teahouse. Just to let you know, you posted your question to the wrong page. The proper place would be TEA?. I might advise trying to form a more specific question that we could help you with. Please take some time to look through some of the links above. If you have no clue as to what is going on here, don't despair. The two links at the end of the first written paragraph are written for those starting from scratch.

My best suggestion starting out is to just go visit some pages on subjects you are familiar with, and do some small positive changes. Open the page in edit mode and take a look at how the markup appears. Soon you will understand how it works. Don't worry about breaking things. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that you can do that cannot be undone. Another good thing to do would be to have a sandbox to play around in. I have taken the liberty of building you one. It is here. This gives you a place to play around with the markup and experiment without worrying about messing up an article.

I am guessing from your name that you may be interested in improving references on Wikipedia articles. In case that is the case, I will leave you a short tutorial on how to do referencing immediately after this.

Another good thing to do to practice would be to build your userpage. See the links above for details.

One thing I would NOT do right off is create an article. It takes a while to get the hang of what the standard for inclusion is about (we call it notability), and I would hate to have your first article get speedy deleted and you get discouraged over it. In any case, again, welcome. If you have any questions or have anything you would like me to look over, feel free to drop me a note on my talk page. Happy editing! John from Idegon (talk) 21:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 21:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)


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