Mikalac

Welcome!

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• Contributing to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
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• Respect copyrights – do not copy and paste text or images directly from other websites.
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• Take particular care while adding biographical material about a living person to any Wikipedia page and follow Wikipedia's Biography of Living Persons policy. Particularly, controversial and negative statements should be referenced with multiple reliable sources.
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Teahouse invitation

The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Shearonink (talk) 13:34, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello! Mikalac, 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! Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Images instructions

To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it.

• If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload .
• If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways;

A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr)

B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like:

"Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached."

-Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out)

-And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

If any of your questions about how to insert images into an article aren't answered in these instructions, additional information is available at the following Wikipedia articles:
Help:Introduction to uploading images/1
Help:Files
Help:Contents/Images and media (for a master-listing of all pertinent image-use links).
Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy

Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
2. Then click on "Templates".
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
4. Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
5. Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
6. Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

• Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header   ==References==   is near the end of the article.
• And check that   {{Reflist}}    is directly underneath that header.

7.  Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

• To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

A tiny bit of advice

Hope all these links helps you to start to edit WIkipedia. Before maybe jumping in & making a lot of big changes at the Pocono Mountains article you should learn some things first - go through the editing tutorial & the Picture tutorial, ask questions at the Teahouse, experiment in your own sandbox (your own space on Wikipedia where you can test out your editing skills). And when you do start editing on that article you want to fix, just fix sometime small to start - maybe correct a misspelling, adjust some punctuation, preview your edit, save it and then go on from there. Good luck! Also, you should remove any personally-identifying information from your posts - it's not necessary to include emails or phone #s and so on. Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

The

Adventure

Hi Mikalac!! You're invited: learn how to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Hope to see you there! Play The Wikipedia Adventure This message was delivered by Chris Troutman (talk) 08:45, 8 April 2017 (UTC)