Alizera

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Alizera, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  Friday (talk) 16:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome to WP.. yeah it can be pretty intimidating at first, but the rewards are there too. Let me know what you're looking to do here on WP, and we can look at some articles that can be improved :) SirFozzie 20:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

How to create a new page

Can be found at Help:Starting_a_new_page. Templates are wikitext code that you include in an an article source text to produce certain graphics or text boxes in the article itself. This may not be the best of answers. Hopefully it is clear and descriptive enough. There is likely much I don't fully understand about templates, as a start you could visit template. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thane Eichenauer (talk • contribs) 05:05, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

easiest way for newbies to contribute

I'll start my answer with a disclaimer: Like many things, there is no *best* way to contribute. I will tell you the style I used when I started. I am a detail type of person so I started out looking for spelling and grammar mistakes. I also looked for extremely factual based articles, such as hypothetically, 2004 election results for Arizona (where I live) and then update the page with, for instance, candidates that other people hadn't added yet. I gravitate towards contributing on articles where I can be sure my addition is unimpeachable (because I *know*) and then working my way around and around. I am sure you have several favorite topics in life and school and if you start looking around on wikipedia then you can just read and read articles and there is likely to be a spelling error here, a grammar error there and so forth. This doesn't sound exciting to you if it isn't your style of excitement (I am wikignomic).

As my user page states, I really enjoy reading The Signpost, especially The Report on Lengthy Litigation (TROLL) as I can see how people get into arguements on wikipedia (and therefore identify how to avoid them myself).

Lastly, if you are fluent at any non-English language you could consider looking around on a non-english wikipedias and compare and contrast or fix articles there. Thane Eichenauer 03:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I added my answer on my User_talk:Thane_Eichenauer page. Thane Eichenauer 23:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

New WikiProject!

Hi, Alizera, the WikiProject got started, thanks to you! :) Check out this page and have fun adding your own articles. :) I can't wait to learn more about crochet. Talk to you soon, but gotta run off to work now, Willow 13:30, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Textile Arts newsletter

Happy New Year! WikiProject Textile Arts is starting 2008 by initiating a project newsletter. We had 7 new articles at Template:Did you know in December (and six of them were in crochet). Have a look and we hope to see more of you in 2008. Cheers, Durova^Charge! 20:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Textile Arts newsletter

Hello again, this month's textile arts newsletter highlights the expansion of top-importance knitting and good article candidacy for Palestinian costumes. We've had several more new articles appear at Template:Did you know and other exciting developments. Regards, Durova^Charge! 23:32, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Textile arts newsletter

Hi, the textile arts project had an exciting month in February: 7 featured pictures, 2 good articles, and 4 Did you know? entries. There's still time to join our featured portal drive. Our March newsletter has all the developments. Regards, Durova^Charge! 00:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)