User talk:Christian Gregory

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Welcome!

Hello, Christian Gregory, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- Solipsist 13:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Sincere Note of Thank-you

Dear Solipsist,


I'm not certain whether this be the appropriate page for this -- but I'll not be doing it again, so not to worry -- however, I wanted to thank you for your warm welcome, helpful links, and the offer of your personal aid should I find a problem that the general guide-lines don't cover. I'm afraid I still don't know how to contact you directly; not certain whether you receive an e-mail copy of anything I write, such as on your talk page, etc., or whether you have to log-on to see it. So maybe I do have a question in the end:


Please, let me know how I'd contact you via e-mail, if needed; (I need no personal e-mail address, simply the method by which Wikipedia will further the message to you).


Thank you once again, Christian M. Gregory, (just Chris, please)


PS: I do promise to try to learn and follow the rules laid out by Wikipedia for clarity and uniformity of style, but as it's early days, I can't say I'm au fait just yet. You understand; any mistakes are unintentional, and constructive criticism very welcome. Cheers.

Christian Gregory 07:54, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

No worries - adding a note to my user_talk page, like you did, is easily the best way to contact me for anything to do with Wikipedia. It is also possible to send users an email message, by viewing their user page then looking for the 'E-mail this user' link in the toolbox on the left. Users are not required to provide an email address when they sign up for Wikipedia, so sometimes you will get a message saying that an email can't be sent.
For discussions on a particular article, its best to use the article's talk page which can encourage other interested parties to join in. The only downside there is that you don't get the orange banner announcing a new message, in the same way that you do when someone edits your user talk page. But if you can find the 'my watchlist' link at the top of your page it can help you keep track of changes to any pages that you have edited or chosen to watch.
And don't worry too much about the manual of style before you start editing; it only really exists to help articles converge on a standard style and perhaps to resolve disputes if two editors disagree about something. One of the joys of Wikipedia, is that there are plenty of other editors around who will jump in and correct any mistakes you make. If you write a new article with no links and ignoring the manual of style, you will probably find that someone else has fixed the spelling mistakes, wiki-linked half a dozen terms and categorised it before the day is out. Many editors actually enjoy copyediting like this, see Wikipedia:Cleanup. As long as you are not actively trying to damage articles or promote some agenda, you are unlikely to have much trouble. Other than that happy editing. -- Solipsist 10:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)