User:Safalra

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en	This user is a native speaker of English.

de-1

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UK	This user uses British English.

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Ω

This user has full understanding of the Greek alphabet.

ipa

This user fully understands the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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I'm Safalra. I first became aware of Wikipedia when it started showing up in the referrer logs of my website (http://www.safalra.com). I registered an account on 2nd April 2006.

1 Citing sources
- 1.1 Citing webpages
2 Adding IPA pronunciation guides
3 Photographs
4 Diagrams
5 Fair-use images

[edit] Citing sources

The citation of sources ensures that Wikipedia content is verifiable, with no original research. There are several different citation styles in use in Wikipedia, with the guideline that each article should use a single citation style throughout. My personal preference is to use the footnotes system along with citations following the guidelines described in chapters 16 and 17 of The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition). The footnotes system is adequated described elsewhere on Wikipedia; here I will explain the citation style.

[edit] Citing webpages

The format for citing webpages is:

author, "title", publisher, URL (accessed yyyy-mm-dd)

For example:

Paul Rincon, "Jawbone hints at earliest Britons", BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4482679.stm (accessed 2006-11-07)

Many websites do not cite the authors of pages; in this case, I use the domain portion of the URL as the author.

[edit] Adding IPA pronunciation guides

Many articles lack pronuncation guides, or feature pronunciation guides that are either incorrect or in a non-standard phonetic system. I've added IPA pronunciation guides to the following articles:

Bishopsteignton, Brixham, Dawlish, Exmouth, Devon, Kingsteignton, Lyme Regis, Paignton, River Teign, Starcross, Teignmouth, Torbay, Torquay, Totnes, Uvula, and Vichyssoise