User talk:Dreamafter - Misplaced Pages

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Welcome!

Hello Dreamafter! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions to this 💕. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Mahanga 01:31, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

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Adoption

I have been looking for someone who I can Adopt. I think that you could be the right person. If you agree, post a message on my User talk:Mahanga. Mahanga 18:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Great! Let me know if you have any questions. I noticed you were editing your monobook.js. Were you having problems or were you just testing it out? If you're interested, I encourage you to check out some of these links and see if they pique your interest. Cheers! Mahanga 21:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

New user tasks

Probably the first question I should've asked, but how comfortable are you in editing Misplaced Pages? Mahanga 01:31, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

James Ensor

Hello thanks for your suggestion that I get an adopter - but I do not even know how to accomplish that 16:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)James Ensor

user warnings

First of all, I want to thank you for directing User:James Ensor to the adoption program. Many new users don't know that it exists, so this lets us help them very much.

If you wish to leave a note or a warning on a user because he vandalized a page or whatnot, you can leave a handwritten note on their page. However, most experienced Wikipedians use template messages. Many templates for different purposes exist here. There are some that create infoboxes, welcome new users, warn users, create a timeline, and so on. The text of the template will be substituted for something else.

For example, take the "citation needed" template. If you type {{cn}} into an article and hit save, it will expand to form this -> . You can link to a template like this: Template:Citation needed or the easier way, {{cn}}.

If you want to leave a user a message for vandalism, you'd go to Misplaced Pages:Template messages/User talk namespace and copy the appropriate template, such as {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} for the first warning and {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} for 2nd warning.

You can test these templates out in the WP:SANDBOX. Please let me know if you need more clarification or examples. Mahanga 22:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)