User talk:Tolerant666
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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hello, Tolerant666, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. My name is Hdt83. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to the free encyclopedia anybody can edit. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, feel free to leave me a message on my talk/chat page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages to help you. The left column contains tutorials and introductory pages while the right shows ways to help out Wikipedia.
Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.
Again, welcome! :) -- Hdt83 Chat 23:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[edit] Response to question on help desk
If you're on a school or public computer, you can stop receiving messages for that IP address by signing in to your account. Once you sign in to your own account, you will not receive messages meant for other users of the public computer's IP address. Hope that answers your question. -- Hdt83 Chat 23:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- Also, it's possible for administrators to block the IP except for registered users; therefore, if vandalism from your school or public computer becomes too bad, it's possible to block it in such a way that the other people there can't edit but you still can. --ais523 16:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Userboxes
Hi! The banners on my userpage are called userboxes. You can learn more about them here: Wikipedia:Userboxes. There are also a whole gallery of boxes for almost anything that can describe you here: Wikipedia:Userboxes#Gallery. To use them, just copy the code for the box from the gallery or other people's pages on to your userpage. For example {{User_en}} would give
If you need any more help than don't hesitate to contact me via my talk page. :) -- Hdt83 Chat 23:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reply to questions
Hello, here are some answers to your questions:
- You do not usually check the minor edit box when editing talk pages. Also, you do not have to post a notice of every single edit you made to an article on its talk page, only if the change was a major one should you post a notice about the change.
- No, you don't have to ask a user permission to use their userbox. The slashes on a box shouldn't be affecting the display of them. {{User:UBX/photography}} should give you
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This user enjoys photography. |
