Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome! My name is Manishearth, and I'm one of the online ambassadors, a group of experienced Wikipedians who offer mentorship to newcomers. You don't need to read anything; you can just jump right in and try to improve Wikipedia. If you need help, you can talk with us right now, or can leave me a message on my user talk page. Have fun! ManishEarthTalkStalk 02:37, 12 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Editing cheatsheet
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Summary of policies and guidelines
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Find the page for your course
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Choose a mentor
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Help with article assessment
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Starting an article
Guide to starting your first article

Your Sandboxes

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Hey folks. This is a broadcast message being sent to everyone on Prof Weil's course that have added themselves to his course page on Wikipedia. I'll be using this in order to communicate with you all. In this message I would like to request that you let me know the location of your sandbox. If you are working in a group please let me know whose sandbox you'll be using for your proto-articles so I can add them to my watchlist. If you have any questions please feel free to bug me either on Wikipedia or in the IRC help channel. Sincerely, EdwardsBot (talk) 02:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

How to contact Basket of Puppies

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Due to a technical error the above message didn't appear to be coming from me. If you need to contact me please use the following: Basket of Puppies (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log).

How to use talk pages

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Hey there. You might find this video useful. Basket of Puppies 21:37, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Introduction paragraphs in your articles

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Dear Students, please a look at the introduction of your articles and have a read of WP:LEDE. I noticed some of the articles did not have the most well developed introduction paragraphs. Also, please remember to stick to a neutral point of view. This means no prescriptions and no suggestions. Have a look at WP:NPOV for more information. Thanks! BoP EdwardsBot (talk) 21:40, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

We're #1 !!!

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Dear students- we're number 1 on the Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Leaderboard. This is awesome and extremely impressive! Way to go!! --Basket of Puppies (talk) 15:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)Reply