Rodroger
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editHello, Rodroger, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 15:54, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
May 2017
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Morgellons, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Please restore the comments from me on the page. I assume it was just an error. Thanks. Dbrodbeck (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Talk pages
editAdding to what is written above...
Working on talk pages is very important here. How we do that, is described at the talk page guidelines, here: WP:TPG. Please read that.
- There are very few cases where it is OK to remove or change another editor's comments on a Talk page. Please don't do that, until you understand things better.
- Please don't edit something you wrote, if someone else has responded to it. Instead, you need to WP:REDACT (please read that link)
- Finally, indenting and signing -- Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon ":" in front of your comment, and the WP software converts that into an indent; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons "::" which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages. That is how we know who said what. I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on.
These things are all really fundamental here - as fundamental as "please" and "thank you" in the real world. Please do pay mind to them. Thanks Jytdog (talk) 15:58, 1 May 2017 (UTC)