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[edit] Welcome Wagon

Welcome "FleshlightGuy" to Wikipedia! We welcome you, and value your participation. Please check out the following references to working with everyhone else on Wikipedia. Atom 21:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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1. Sign Your Posts on talk & discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date; three tildes will produce your name only; five just the date.
   
2. Don't forget to use the Show preview button; it saves a lot of wear and tear on the computers, and keeps the various wiki lists clean of lots of unnecessary entries. Also, please don't forget to fill in the Edit summary.
3. Questions? ==> check out Where to ask a question, Village pump, or ask on someone's talk page XXXX
   
4. Write to the target audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or others not too familar with a topic. (Else, why would they be looking it up in an encyclopedia?) What is obvious or of minor relevance to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear or important to a high-school student, someone who is thinking of returning to college, or just someone looking for information (but not a learned treatise). Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well.

• Discussion of Reading level

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