User talk:Kelly Anne Seguin
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[edit] Welcome!
Welcome!
Hello, Kelly Anne Seguin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}}
on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
P.S. I replied to your question at the help desk. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 15:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Searching articles
To avoid confusion:
- Typing a phrase in the search box and clicking "go" will check if there is an article with this exact name. If so, you will go directly to the article (this works even if the article has been just created). If not, you will be offered the option to create an article with this name.
- Typing a phrase in the search box and clicking "search" will perform a full-text search in the search database. Every article that contains this phrase will be presented. This database is updated periodically, so new articles will not appear in a search.
- Typing a phrase in the search box and pressing "enter" will act like "go" if there is an article with this exact name (and therefore lead you directly to it), and if there isn't, it will act like "search" and present you with all the matches it finds.
- A redirect is an article that only contains the command #Redirect [[Target article name]]. All it does is immediately launching you into the target article. A redirect is, first, an article, so typing the name of a redirect and either clicking "go" or pressing "enter" will lead you to the target article (which, again, works for new articles as well).
Hope you've found that helpful. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)