User talk:VergiliusMaro

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Hello VergiliusMaro! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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 someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. 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! Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 03:42, 1 November 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

[edit] About redirects and forks

Hi, let me also welcome you to Wikipedia and thank you for your participation to the project. Just a little tip: earlier you created the page Amon(demon) by, as far as I can tell, copying the content from Amon (demon). Again I'm just guessing, but most likely you thought "well if people type Amon(demon) as a search they'll find the info they're looking for." If that's the case then the intention is good but the correct way to do this is to create a redirect page. In fact I have just transformed Amon(demon) into a redirect to Amon (demon). This avoids the creation of content forks whereby two pages about the same subject evolve in parallel. Similarly, you might want to redirect Belzebuth to Beelzebub and contribute to the progress of that second article. If you have any questions regarding how to do this (or regarding anything actually) drop a note on my talk page or write {{helpme}} on your talk page with your question. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 03:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)