DonLipper

Recent post to the Marriage vows talk page

Hi Don, welcome to Wikipedia! I see you're quite new here so you probably didn't realize that our article talk pages are supposed to be used only to discuss improvements to the article. Questions for external projects aren't appropriate. You can find out a little more about contributing to the encyclopedia at our five pillars and welcome pages. Feel free to leave a message at the bottom of my talk page if you have any questions. -- SiobhanHansa 23:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC) How do I reply to you?DonLipper 04:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Don, you can leave a message here (I have your page watch listed - so I'll probably notice when you edit here). Or you can edit my talk page, which will notify me with a big yellow message bar. Edit it just like you do any other page. It is customary to leave messages about a new subject at the bottom of a talk page. -- SiobhanHansa 01:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I deleted the offending requests for vow stories for our book. we are still elarning the culture of Wikipedia. I understand that if people are itnerested they can see my edits to the page but I'm not familiar enough with the software to find that feture. Just curious could you show me how to find the previous edits on the talk page? Thanks. Also since I deleted the offending amterial, shoud we delete this conversation when we are done? --DonLipper (talk) 00:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Don. The learning curve can seem steep, but so long as you try to build the encyclopedia slip ups are not a problem. To see who has edited a particular page click on the history tab at the top of the page next to the edit this page tab. You get a big list of edits - you can look at the state of the page at a particular time by clicking on the time, or you can see the diff (difference) between two versions by checking the radio buttons and clicking the compare selected versions button. Once you have an older version showing you can step backwards or forwards through each edit made from there in sequence (it should make sense when you try it!). Be careful about editing when you are looking at histories. If you click edit, you'll actually revert the page to that point in its history and make your changes from there.

To see what edits a particular user has made throughout Wikipedia go to their user or talk page and click on the User contributions link in the bottom toolbox in the left margin.

Another thing you might find useful is the watchlist. you can watch pages by clicking on the watch tab (up at the top with the history tab). Then go to your Watchlist page by clicking on the my watchlist link in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This shows you the last edit on all the pages you have watched. Useful for keeping up with conversations and article's you are interested in. (This assumes you haven't chosen a different skin, which since you're new seems unlikely. If you don't have tabs that say exactly the same thing, look around for similar sounding links that appear on each page).

Feel free to delete conversations from your own talk page when you're through with them. Best practice is to archive though many people don't. All content is available through the history anyway, so it isn't essential to keep all conversations that are really just for you on an actual page, but I know I have found it very useful to have my talk page archives to look back through occasionally.

That's probably more than enough for a Sunday evening! Let me know if I can be of any more assistance. Happy editing. -- SiobhanHansa 01:22, 19 November 2007 (UTC)