Message from a fellow editor

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 Welcome Slrayner!
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Sincerely, Crtew (talk) 03:55, 27 August 2012 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)Reply

User page v. talk page

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Hi Slrayner, I see you've discovered both your user page and talk page. You user page is where you can place anything you want about yourself and your work with Wikipedia to communicate your persona to the community. Your user talk page is where other Wikipedians will go to send you a message. I moved your bio over to your user page and added an internal link to a Wikipedia page by placing two brackets around an article name, which was University of Southern Indiana. Have fun with Wikipedia, Crtew (talk) 03:55, 27 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Signing messages

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Slrayner, Signing messages is the primary way you tell people who is writing them and it is simple to do! All you need to do is to place four tildes after your message and Wikipedia, autosigns, timestamps and creates a reply link in one fell swoop. Have fun, Crtew (talk) 13:30, 27 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

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Hello! Slrayner, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us!
I, and the rest of the hosts, would be more than happy to answer any questions you have! SarahStierch (talk) 16:18, 2 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Assignment

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Slrayner, You are assigned to write about Lebanon and "Military attacks on the media during the 2006 Lebanon War", including press casualties and injuries or infrastructure damage.

You may want to start by constructing a list from the resources you have on your user page and then continue to search from there for any other attacks before writing. Aim to write a section that will be included in the above article. Good luck, Crtew (talk) 12:42, 10 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Military attacks on the media ...

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  Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your user subpage at User:Slrayner/Military attacks on the media during the 2006 Lebanon War may not meet Wikipedia's user page guideline because This article has bee proposed for speedy deletin so that it doesn't duplicate collaborative efforts or confuse others. Thank you for doing your part.. If you believe that your userpage does not violate our guidelines, please leave a note on this page. As an alternative, you may add {{Db-userreq}} to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it, or you can simply edit the page so that it meets Wikipedia's userpage guidelines. Thank you.