User talk:Athleek

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[edit] Welcome

With respect to Uber Geek, you picked a hard way to start contributing to wikipedia. You'll have a hard time persuading people that (a) it belongs here and not on wiktionary (see WP:DICT), and (b) that the subject matter can't better be covered at Geek. Speaking of which, Geek needs some work - see for example Wikipedia:Featured article criteria for what we shoot for.

Anyway, hope you find a way to contribute. Here's a boilerplate welcome message:

Welcome!

Hello, Athleek, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Kingdon (talk) 03:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, you successfully managed to leave a note on my talk page. You did it right except a few fine points (a. put it at the end, not the start, b. Don't indent text with spaces as the software does strange things to it, c. start with a header such "== Uber Geek ==" or "== Hello =="). As for your mission to get pages for Uber Geek and/or Athleek, if you really want to start your wikipedia career with something hard like this, you can read up on some of the relevant policies (WP:N and WP:SPEEDY spring to mind as well as WP:DICT which I already mentioned), and try to figure out how to persuade people that this would improve the encyclopedia. But if you can stomach the idea of starting with something easier (fixing typos, or something else that appeals to you among the tasks at Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia), there are more gentle ways of learning the software and the policies and the people. Kingdon (talk) 03:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)