User talk:OhioScienceTeacher

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Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Fire Star 火星 05:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Seconded! Unlike Fire Star, I'm not part of the welcoming committee but I wanted to welcome you and thank you for your excellent contributions since becoming a member. I've just done some work on the format of your fine piece on Kennard Baker Bork and it includes some great research. I'm fairly new too, but wanted to share a few tips I've picked up in the last six months.
  • About links: for links within Wikipedia ("Wikilinks") there's no need to give the full address - just give the title surrounded by double square brackets. If there is a Wikipedia page it's normally best to link to this than an external site.
  • About references: these are best done with the "ref" and "references" tags, as I've done for Prof Bork. (Other methods can becoming confusing - see Alligator Effigy Mound (Licking County, Ohio) which now has two systems of footnotes!)
  • Categories: it helps others to give pages a category. For example, Prof Bork now falls within the category "living people".
  • Edits: to aid tracing the history of an article its a good idea to put a few words as an edit summary.
There's much more for me to learn (for example, images are a mystery to me!) and Fire Star's links are useful, but I hope this helps. One of the best ways to pick things up is to check the codes and tags of an existing article. All the best. Wavehunter 19:15, 13 September 2007 (UTC)