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==Welcome==

Hi {{subst:PAGENAME}}! [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome]] to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy your time here and contribute some excellent material to this encyclopedia. It's always useful to consider some important pointers for adding material, so if you have time check out some of these links: *[[Wikipedia:Five pillars|The five pillars of Wikipedia]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]
*[[Help:Contents|Help pages]]
*[[Wikipedia:Tutorial|Wikipedia tutorial]]
*[[Wikipedia:Article development|How to write a great article]]
*[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|How to format pages]]
If you need help, check out [[Wikipedia:Questions]], ask me on [[User talk:Ziggurat|my talk page]], or place <nowiki>{{helpme}}</nowiki> on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!

==Categories in Userspace==

Hi! I noticed that in your scratchpad / draft / alternative article [[*]] you have the categories still activated, so it's showing up in [[:Category:*]]. Could I suggest that you deactivate them (by putting a colon before 'Category' in the link) until such time as the article is in the mainspace rather than the userspace? (As per [[WP:CG]], "If you copy an article to your user namespace (for example, as a temporary draft or in response to an edit war) you should decategorize it".) Cheers, ~~~~

==US vs. UK spellings==

Hi! Always nice to see a new face at Wikipedia - I hope you enjoy your time here. I'm posting this here to comment on your recent changes to [[*]]. It is Wikipedia convention where there is a spelling choice difference between US, UK, and other countries' varieties not to change to another variety without a good reason (see [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English]]). '*' is an accepted spelling, and Wikipedia aims to be an international encyclopedia. It's not a big deal, but I thought I should mention it as some people are likely to be annoyed if you change '*' to '*' in every article. Best, ~~~~

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