User talk:TheWolfMoose

Welcome

Hello, TheWolfMoose, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 23:44, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

More welcome, and some talk page tips

Thanks for your question on my talk page about adding examples at the article Reappropriation. I responded there to your question. You may notice that there are different styles of communication on User Talk pages, and some editors would have responded to you here on your talk page, as in this recommendation, for your question there. I find that having the questions and answers on two different page just breaks up the conversation thread and makes it harder to follow, but some people prefer it that way. So don't be too surprised if that happens with someone else; it's just a personal preference, and both ways are okay. If you prefer to keep your conversations with users in one place (either your User talk page, or theirs) then you can place the {{usertalkback}} banner on the top of your talk page, which will let others know your preference. You can also place a {{talk header}} there if you wish; to see what your talk page would look like if you placed both of those, look at the top of my talk page.

This page has a good discussion about Talk pages, and has sections on both article talk pages and User talk pages, and talks about the differences between the two.

There are a couple of things to know about editing talk pages, which are different from editing articles:

1. When you are adding a comment to an existing section, place your response at the bottom and indent it by adding a colon in the left margin.
2. Always identify yourself by signing your posts with four tildes (~~~~) at the end.
3. When you reply to someone on an article talk page, they won't know you did so. If you want them to read your remarks, {{ping}} them by adding {{ping|Some username here}} at the beginning of your remarks, and they will be alerted. When you edit someone's User talk page, they will be notified automatically, you don't have to ping them. (That's why I'm not pinging you for this message.)

Hope this helps, hope you like it here, and if you have any questions at all, you can ask me on my talk page, you can type {{HelpMe}} here on your talk page, or you can ask a question at the Village pump. Thanks, and happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 00:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)