User talk:Stozball

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello Stozball! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Wikipedia is not • Deletion policy The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The "perfect" article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

No problem, Stoz. It is actually me (not a bot - that might welcome vandals as well, and I like to have a personal touch). I like to give new users a welcome, because even if they know the syntax (from the double brackets to complicated parser functions and template callers), they might not know about things like shortcuts, magic words and policies and guidelines. The way to make an image clickable is to use an imagemap - but have the clickable region of the map covering the whole image. See an example on the Main Page - this is the code for the sister projects section.

<imagemap>Image:Commons-logo-31px.png|31x41px rect 0 0 50 50 [[commons:|Commons]] desc none</imagemap>

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And using the first person on your userpage is fine - although you don't own the data on the page, the description is about you and written by you. Take a look at mine if you want inspiration (or userboxes :P). See you around, and ask if you need any more help. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 13:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)