User talk:Lannah

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Lannah, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. 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}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!

P.S.: If you want, I'd love to adopt you. --Fritz S. (Talk) 18:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi there, I see you are a New Zealander (or at least, appear to be by your edits). There are several NZ related Wikipedia pages that you may be interested in.

Welcome, and enjoy.  Feel free to ask me for any help you need on my talk page.-gadfium 05:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption

Okay, great. Just let me know when you need any help with anything or have any questions. Judging from the edits you made so far, you're already familiar with the wiki markup and everything. You might want to read Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Attribution since these are two quite important guidelines and policies, but I can totally see that all the rules we have here might be a little much for someone new to the project, so I wouldn't worry about all of that too much, yet, if I were you. Nobody's going to get mad at you for not being familiar with every little guideline – at least they shouldn't; that's a guideline, too ;)

Since you said on your userpage you want to work on New Zealand-related pages, I thought you might be interested in the WikiProject New Zealand and the WikiProject New Zealand places (if you don't already know about these). WikiProjects are community pages that coordinate work on articles that belong to one topic (so that, for example, every article on a film has a similar layout).

Again, let me know if you have any questions – you can feel free to ask about anything. Happy editing. --Fritz S. (Talk) 10:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

Sure. Since everybody can edit Wikipedia, it is important to "proof" that what you write is correct. That's done by adding your sources to the article, so other users can verify that what you added is true. To do this, you add <ref> followed by your source followed by </ref> behind the information you verify with that source. So adding a sentence with a source would look like this in the edit window:

Here goes your sentences.<ref>Here goes your source</ref>

which will show up like this in the article:
Here goes your sentences.[1]

The source listing will then appear at the bottom of the article in the References section. If there's no References section, you can add it by adding these two lines near the end of the article:

==References==
<references />

There's also quite a number of templates you can use for adding your sources. For example, {{cite web}} is the template for websites as sources. So if your source is a website, you can use that template like this:

Here goes your sentences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.example.url/ |title="Title of your source"}}</ref>

You only need to add the url and the title, but the more information you add the better (there's a list of all parameters for the template here). I think this covers the basics of citing references, let me know if you didn't understand something or have any other questions. --Fritz S. (Talk) 10:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bots

Bots are used to make automated edits that would be too much or too monotonous for actual human editors to do. Bots can be written in various programming languages and each bot has to be approved before it is used. If you have an idea for a bot, but do not want to create it yourself, you can also request it here. A somewhat easier alternative to bots are programs such as the AutoWikiBrowser, which allows you to make edits using regex, but each edit will still have to be verified manually. Hope that helps. If not, let me know. --Fritz S. (Talk) 09:27, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Auckland Meetup - 11 August 2007 1pm

You are invited to Auckland Meetup 3 on the afternoon of Saturday 11 August 2007 at Ironique in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 3 for details. You can also watch Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. Linnah 13:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AUK

WikiProject Auckland This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us.

Taifarious1 09:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)