User talk:Gbraing
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Welcome!
Hello, Gbraing, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- 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:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! --Captain Wikify Argh! 02:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you! It's a bit overwhelming, but I think I'll find my way. I'm assuming you make links by putting the square brackets around a word, right? Brain 02:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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- How do I make a link to my talk page (here) from my user page? And vice versa? --Brain 02:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Whoops! Sorry for the long wait; I've been distracted. Anyway, simply add two brackets to both sides of a word [[like so]] and it will look like this. To link to a userpage, add "User:" and then the name, i.e., [[User:Captain Wikify]] will turn out as User:Captain Wikify. Again, sorry about the wait! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask! --Captain Wikify Argh! 04:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, and some other things you might find useful: Add a colon at the beginning of a paragraph to indent it like I've been doing (it helps during long discussions), and two colons to indent twice, and so on. And if you want to link to a page without actually using that word (let's say you wanted the link to say "The Wiki", but you wanted it to link to "Wikipedia"). You simply use the "pipe trick". [[this is where the actual link would go|this is what the link would say]]. By adding the bar to the middle, you have created a whole new link! --Captain Wikify Argh! 04:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Questions I Have
If anyone can answer these questions of mine, it would be much appreciated. :)
- How do you know how many edits you've made since you joined Wikipedia?
- How do you put those tag banner things on pages?
Number of pages edited (also known as an edit count), can be found many ways, the easiest being to enter your username here and get a detailed list of edits.
As for the banner, I'm not entirely sure what you mean-can you give me an example? --Captain Wikify Argh! 03:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- Here's your stats so far:
Username Gbraing Total edits 44 Distinct pages edited 24 Average edits/page 1.833 First edit 02:25, 31 January 2007
(main) 22 Talk 7 User 4 User talk 6 Wikipedia 2 Wikipedia talk 3
- Sweet, thank you! By "banner things" I mean the ones that say "This article does not match encyclopedic content!" or whatever. --Brain 03:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ah. Well, those are known as "templates" and are extremely useful. By adding two bracket-thingies (I forget what they're called) to a word, {{like so}}, you will load the template. For instance, I welcomed you with the "welcome" template. I typed {{welcome}}, and you got the above message. But always remember to substitute, unless it says you're not supposed to. Substitution is a tad hard to explain, but I'll try: for every template, there is a page that is dedicated to that template. There is a page for the {{welcome}} template, and for every other one. By typing the template in brackets, you not only load the page you're viewing, but you also load the template page. It projects a sort of image, if you will, of the template page. It puts an extra strain on the servers. To prevent that, you can substitute. Add the word "subst" to the beginning of a template, {{Subst:Like this}}. It will then take everything from the substitute page (all the formatting, colors, and words) and add them to the new page.
- It's all very confusing, but you'll get it eventually! ;) --Captain Wikify Argh! 21:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
