A533jcis

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Hello, A533jcis! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! 76.66.203.138 (talk) 06:54, 19 November 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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To the prof: I've made some typographic changes to satellite galaxy that you should incorporate as your base, as a cleanup on the version you have here, before your class begins. 76.66.203.138 (talk)

Drafts, Helpful Wikiprojects, and Shared Accounts

Hello. First, welcome to Wikipedia! I've learned about the U Michigan project via WT:AST#University of Michigan Astronomy 533 grad class edits, and as long as you're taking care to follow Wikipedia's rules, I think this is a great idea.

A helpful tip regarding scratch articles in userspace: A good place to put that would be at a location along the lines of User:A533:jcis/(subpage name), rather than at User:A533jcis. People who check this account will expect the root user-page to be about you, and finding other material there may cause concern for reasons unrelated to you. If you need help shuffling content around, just ask; there's a "move" feature that preserves change-history (though it can also scramble things if you're not careful; hence asking).

A second tip is that you can ask the astronomy wikiproject and astronomical objects wikiproject members to review your sample rewrites and help you integrate the changes into the main article. They can be contacted at the talk pages of those wikiprojects (WT:AST and WT:ASTRO, respectively). Making major changes is always a process of negotiation, and taking the time to check with other editors will make the process run a lot more smoothly.

Lastly, a policy point that might cause you trouble if you're not prepared for it: per WP:NOSHARE, Wikipedia forbids use of a single account by multiple people. In a case like this, despite it being a benign use, you'd still end up with the account blocked by administrators. The way around this is to either have a single person acting as gatekeeper and performing the edits on behalf of all students, or to have one account per student (who knows, you may want to continue editing Wikipedia after your project finishes!).

In any event, welcome aboard, and happy editing! --Christopher Thomas (talk) 08:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)