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Welcome!

Hello, Alexlikescats, 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:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

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 on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 22:10, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Getting started

Hi Alexlikescats

Welcome to Wikipedia. While this is indeed an "encyclopedia that anyone can edit", there are actually a lot of policies, guidelines, and customs that guide what we do here - it is not a wild west. So far, all your edits have been on one article, and so your account is what we call a "single-purpose account". Please have a look at the link I just provided you, and please consider what it says there. We always want more folks to edit wikipedia, but there is a lot to learn, and it is a bad idea (on a bunch of levels) to start a dispute when you are just getting started and don't understand how things work yet. It is a recipe for unhappiness for you, other editors with whom you will interact, and it doesn't improve the encyclopedia, which is why are are here. So please - slow down, learn how things work, and hold off on making accusations and starting disputes until you better understand the relevant policies and guidelines, and the ways we interact with one another. Good luck! Jytdog (talk) 22:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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	Welcome to Wikipedia. While this is indeed an "encyclopedia that anyone can edit", there are actually a lot of policies, guidelines, and customs that guide what we do here - it is not a wild west. So far, all your edits have been on one article, and so your account is what we call a [[~~WPSPA~~\|"single-purpose account"]]. Please have a look at the link I just provided you, and please consider what it says there. We always want more folks to edit wikipedia, but there is a lot to learn, and it is a bad idea (on a bunch of levels) to start a dispute when you are just getting started and don't understand how things work yet. It is a recipe for unhappiness for you, other editors with whom you will interact, and it doesn't improve the encyclopedia, which is why are are here. So please - slow down, learn how things work, and hold off on making accusations and starting disputes until you better understand the relevant policies and guidelines, and the ways we interact with one another. Good luck! [[User:Jytdog\|Jytdog]] ([[User talk:Jytdog\|talk]]) 22:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)		Welcome to Wikipedia. While this is indeed an "encyclopedia that anyone can edit", there are actually a lot of policies, guidelines, and customs that guide what we do here - it is not a wild west. So far, all your edits have been on one article, and so your account is what we call a [[WP:SPA\|"single-purpose account"]]. Please have a look at the link I just provided you, and please consider what it says there. We always want more folks to edit wikipedia, but there is a lot to learn, and it is a bad idea (on a bunch of levels) to start a dispute when you are just getting started and don't understand how things work yet. It is a recipe for unhappiness for you, other editors with whom you will interact, and it doesn't improve the encyclopedia, which is why are are here. So please - slow down, learn how things work, and hold off on making accusations and starting disputes until you better understand the relevant policies and guidelines, and the ways we interact with one another. Good luck! [[User:Jytdog\|Jytdog]] ([[User talk:Jytdog\|talk]]) 22:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)