Wardbob600

Welcome Wardbob600!

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Sincerely, – MrX 03:34, 16 October 2012 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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– MrX 03:19, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Response to your question on my talk page

You added:

"The rainbow flag was created to be a more organic and natural replacement, and is a welcomed symbol in the LGBT community since it promotes the spread of aids and mental instability."

Which is at best, controversial, and at worst, vandalism. In any case, you would would need reliable sources to add something like this. Please review the links in the welcome message above for how to do this. – MrX 03:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback

That is to be expected. Citations are easy:

There is a "Cite" toolbar at the top of the edit window which allows you to automatically generate the required wiki code.

You click one of the templates, e.g. "book", and fill in the details.

More information can be found in Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or the citations tutorial (the below video will play best in Firefox or Chrome):

Hope this helps,

Ariconte (talk) 06:42, 16 October 2012 (UTC)