User talk:Marlabrownfeld

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Welcome!

Hello, Marlabrownfeld, 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:

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!  Angus McLellan (Talk) 07:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


Hello Marla.

  • First off, on wikipedia nobody is any better than anyone else, so credentials are not an issue. My experience is exactly the same as yours: years spent reading books. I'm not an expert and I don't even play one on TV or radio. No need to be overawed by all the experts, because most of them aren't!
  • To join a Wikiproject, all you need to do is add yourself to the list of participants on the project page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion in this case). There usually aren't automatic updates: the best thing to do is to click the watch tab at the top of the page. Then you can click "my watchlist" to see recent updates to that (and any other pages you add to your watchlist). Deletion happens various ways, but since articles are the more common and most important, they get the most attention, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Because there are so many, there's a subpage for each day. Basically the yardsticks for inclusion are pretty simple: it's something somebody credible [credible varies, different for new science theories than for TV shows] wrote about before now (verifiable, not original research), and it's not irredeemably biased (Wikipedia is neutral in its point of view).
  • As for me being the person to ask, not necessarily! I just noticed that nobody had yet welcomed you to the project. However, please do ask me (or anyone else you think might be able to help) if you have any questions. There's nobody really in charge on Wikipedia, except that there are some janitorial people, arbitrators, and so on, but they tend to deal with vandalism and bad behavior: unless getting involved in the behind-the-scenes things interests you, and there's always a need for that, you probably don't need to take much interest. Just in case there's any confusion, I'm an ordinary editor, not an administrator, or anything else with even the slightest hint of authority.
  • One last thing: the only place you need to sign with four ~'s is on talk pages, or some Wikipedia pages, basically anywhere you see other people signing things with their names. There's no need to sign in the edit summary box (although it's not a problem if you do, it just doesn't work).

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. All the best, Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

    
Thanks - your kudos are well deserved. Ur a friendly bloke. MB
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