User:Michael180
Welcome Message[change | change source]
Hello and welcome to Simple English Wikipedia!
Here are some tips to help you get started:
- Please read the article describing how to edit a page and feel free to experiment in the Sandbox. Also please read about writting in Simple English.
- Please see what Wikipedia is not
- When editing pages, use the preview button before submitting and try to fill in the summary box for every edit.
- If you need help click here.
- Explore, and, most importantly, have fun!
Good luck!
michael180
P.S. One last helpful hint. To sign your posts, like use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).
Here is some info I copied from Netoholic[change | change source]
- Article creation
- Wikipedia:Basic English alphabetical wordlist
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
- Wikipedia:Requested articles
Here are some links to useful pages[change source]
- Wikipedia:Article wizard – a Wizard that helps you create a page.
- Help:How to edit – special way of typing for Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:How to write Simple English articles – advice for your writing
- Wikipedia:Examples of simpler English – specific examples
- Help:Starting a new page – how to start a new page
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style – guide to formatting style
- Wikipedia:Student tutorial – a quick editing tutorial
- Wikipedia:How to copy from another Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:OTRS – email the volunteer response team
- Wikipedia:Bug reports – problems with the software
- Wikipedia:Cleanup – a list of pages that need help
- Wikipedia:Copyrights – remember not to add text that belongs to someone else
- Wikipedia:Glossary – a glossary of commonly used Wikipedia terms
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view – everything you write should be NPOV
- Wikipedia:Rules – rules that we have agreed to follow
- Wikipedia:Requests for deletion – list of pages that someone thinks should be deleted
- Wikipedia:Requested articles – pages that people would like to be written
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (simple version) – everything you write here is done under this license
- Wikipedia:Sandbox – where to practice editing
- Wikipedia:Simple talk – a place to ask for help or talk with other Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Userboxes – this is a place to make userboxes
- Wikipedia:Template messages – text you can use that is the same in many pages
- Wikipedia:Vandalism – learn how to fight vandalism
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress – to report vandals
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not – what you should not be writing
- Wikipedia:User page – information about userpages and what is/is not allowed.
- Special:New pages – pages created recently
- Special:Ancient pages – pages created long ago that may need work
- Special:Long pages – pages that are the longest
- Special:Short pages – pages that are the shortest