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How do I use advanced WikiFormatting?
The note below should help you get started. Chzz ► 16:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, Eat My Beef, Sarah Palin!. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Chzz ► 16:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it.
Be Bold
, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.
Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.
Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.
When you're ready, read about
Your first article
. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.
Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.
There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!
It's possible to customise your signature, and you can put 'code' in it to have different colours, etc. Pictures aren't allowed; hence, mine isn't an icon, it's just text characters with different colours.
You put the code in your preferences signature box, and checkmark the 'user raw signatures'; please note that it's fiddly, and easy to get it wrong, so it's best to test signing in a user sandbox area.
When using 'raw signatures' in your preferences, you need to manually include the links to your user and talk pages.
Note that you should always include your name (or part of it), a link to your user page and talk page.
Perhaps the easiest way to learn more is simply to look at other peoples signatures, by editing the page they've signed on, and looking at the code. For an example page with several, ahem, interesting signatures, see the April 1st Request for signatureship.
Make sure things are OK before signing on any talk pages (particularly that the links to your own pages work). If it all goes horribly wrong, see