User talk:Michaelhyde

Hello, Michaelhyde! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. 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 username 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! Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 12:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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George Gordon Hyde

Thanks for adding to Wikipedia. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia articles require verifiable sources and must meet notability guidelines. Can you provide sourcing for this article? Thanks. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 12:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. The article looked good. I too find some of the guidelines a bit opaque. Mostly, it's the same rules of grammar you may have heard since highschool. I don't think you'll hae any problem writing well organized, readable articles. I'll tidy the references because it's easier that trying to explain. I'll put bullets beside the sources and make the hyperlink include the descriptions. Open and close []'s around a web link produce an external link. Double brackets, [[]] around a word will create an internal link if there is an article or page by that name. An * infromt of a line of text makes a bullet. #'s make a numbered

list if you don't leave a sapce
between blocks of text like this.

Indenting makes the text look like this.

So block indent is a good idea. You can usually figure out how an effect was produced by reading the edit bos and comparing with what is displayed.

You can make a test page by clicking this red link-- User talk:Michaelhyde/test and editing it. Don't be afraid to BE BOLD. Hope that helps. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 23:08, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. Happy to help. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 17:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption

Hello Michael! I saw that you're looking for someone to adopt you. I've been on Wikipedia for about six months and have around 3,500 edits. If you like, I can formally adopt you, or you can just ask me questions about stuff. :) Drop me a line on my talk page if you'd like to be adopted or if you have any questions, okay? Thanks! GlassCobra 00:08, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]