Welcome to the Wikipedia. If you have questions, stop by Wikipedia:Village Pump. By the way, your articles haven't just been "submitted"--they're automatically part of the Wikipedia as soon as you tell it to save the file. User:Vicki Rosenzweig 23:00 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Other helpful pages include:
* Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers
* Wikipedia:How does one edit a page
* Wikipedia:Manual of style
* Wikipedia:Naming conventions
Have fun! --User:Jiang 23:13 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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I think that Bicycle Chain is a reasonable redirect to bicycle chain, so I don't think it really needs to be deleted. When you are signed in, you can use the "Move this page" feature to move a page from the wrong place to the right one, without cutting and pasting the text. Using that feature is nicer, because it preserves the edit history of the page all in one place. Now that I come to look at this particular case, it doesn't really matter, because there was no edit history apart from what you'd done anyway, but in general it is a good idea, so that when people look at the edit history they can see it all in one place. Oh yes, and welcome to the Wikipedia. :) -- User:Oliver Pereira 21:24 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks!
Questions:
* What's the proper way to respond to User talk? Like this? or should I respond in User_talk:Oliver_Periera ?
* (I just noticed the button ! Cool ! I wouldn't have saved so many bad edits if I'd noticed it before! )
* Is that timestamp at the end of your post generated automagically? Is there some meta-thingee to do that?
* I want to add an entry that contains a Spanish "enye" character - Bun~ol - should the entry/filename be:
** Bun~ol
** Bu + whatever hex unicode thing it takes + ol
** Bunyol (English phonetic)
** Bunol (just pretend the tilde isn't there)
** ???
--User:AHands
:Hi Adrian. Whether you respond here or Oliver's talk page seems to be a matter of preference. Some people prefer to keep a conversation in one place so they reply on the same page. If the conversation's important, the other person can add this page to their watchlist, so they will know when you've replied to them. On the other hand, the advantage to replying on Oliver's page is that he will get the ''You have new messages'' appear at the top of the page straight away, so he will definitely get your message.
:The timestamp is automatic. Just put four tildes (~) and it will change to your signature followed by the time. Three tildes just does your signature without the time.
:I'm afraid I can't help with the special characters thing. You might get a response quicker if you ask at the Wikipedia:Village pump.
Good luck with your editing. User:Angela 23:32 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:Thanks! User:AHands 12:04 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hello, AHands! Sorry for my delay in replying. I think it's okay for you to reply on this page, because I ''usually'' remember to check for replies to messages I leave for people. :) If I forget, you can always pester me on User talk:Oliver Pereira. But be sure to spell my surname correctly, or you'll end up at the wrong place. :) I've replied to your question about naming conventions at the village pump. -- User:Oliver Pereira 16:39 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)
== Article Licensing ==
Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
*User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
*Wikipedia:Multi-licensing
*User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "" template into their user page, but there are other options at Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
:Option 1
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:OR
:Option 2
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "" with "". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my User talk:Ram-Man. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- User:Ram-Man ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| User talk:Ram-Man
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I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
User:AHands 05:23, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)