User talk:Imrahil

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In few days a "profile" will be edited here!

P.S. I'm a brazilian citzen. Então, as pessoas que falarem português, por favor, entrem em contato!=)

[edit] Welcome

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Probably the most helpful article for learning how to edit Tolkien articles is Middle-earth canon, which outlines the policy we try to use. This is, as far as I know, one of the only places to seriously attempt to incorporate corrections from History of Middle-earth into information from the Silmarillion, etc. My general rule of thumb is to do the best you can to be accurate, and be sure to read the relevant articles when you edit because there's a good chance that if there is a discrepancy, someone else has already noted it. However, none of us can possibly keep track of everything at the same time, so do the best you can, and be ready to document your sources. (It usually isn't necessary to say if you got something from the Silmarillion, but if it comes from Unfinished Tales and contradicts the Silmarillion, you should probably explain yourself, for example.

You will get an idea of conventions as you go. There aren't a lot of absolute rules, but there are some things that we try to do consistently to make it easier for readers (and editors). One helpful thing is to use List of Middle-earth articles to keep track of edits to Middle-earth articles and talk pages. (Use the "related changes" link on that page.) Also, if you're not sure what to do (or why someone who seems to know what they are doing did something that seems odd to you), please ask questions! Again, welcome!

—[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 23:53, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

P.S. Since you're from Brazil, maybe you could help add Interwiki links to Portuguese Middle-earth articles? We seem to be lacking those. (Do you read Spanish? We don't have a lot of those links, either.)