User talk:Elplatt

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Dear Elplatt: Welcome to Wikipedia, a free and open-content encyclopedia. I hope you enjoy contributing. To help get you settled in, I thought you might find the following pages useful:

Don't worry too much about being perfect. Very few of us are! Just in case you are not perfect, click here to see how you can avoid making common mistakes.

If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.

Wikipedians try to follow a strict policy of never biting new users. If you are unsure of how to do something, you are welcome to ask a more experienced user such as an administrator. One last bit of advice: please sign any discussion comment with four tildes (~~~~). The software will automatically convert this into your signature which can be altered in the "Preferences" tab at the top of the screen. I hope I have not overwhelmed you with information. If you need any help just let me know. Once again welcome to Wikipedia, and don't forget to tell us about yourself and be BOLD! Ksbrowntalk 19:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Thanks for creating the stubs for Alcohol dependence and Alcohol abuse. If possible please use a more specific stub tag than {{stub}}. For these two articles I have used {{Mental-health-stub}} as I believe that it is the most appropriate. However, if you are creating stubs you know more about the subject than we do stub sorting. To help you find the right stub tag there is a list at WP:WSS/ST. Again, welcome and don't hesitate to ask me a question if you need to. Thank you. Ksbrowntalk 19:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Blanc beer

I appreciate that the user seemed to be quite a nusiance, but I don't see any real vandalism as such, just misguided page creation and cries for help. The one obviously unnacceptable edit came afer this, which could be seen as antagonistic, and even so it was not vandalism so much as a personal attack. We do have a policy, visible at WP:AGF, which tells us to assume good faith in instances like this.

Privately speaking, the chances are it was trolling and bad faith edits, but if you could be a bit friendlier initially it may make the difference between a committed vandal and a great editor.

Mind you, I'm a bit of a softie.... Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, thanks ever so much for the help you're doing fighting vandalism and (even better) contributing to articles. If I can be of any further help, please get in touch!

Dave 03:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation guidelines

Hi Elplatt- I've read the guidelines on references but am not clear about where I'm going wrong. Could you help me by clarifing. Thanks for your time and effort.David Justin 16:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Elplat- Thanks for your help, which I greatly appreciate.David Justin 20:34, 17 October 2007 (UTC)