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 ;Welcome! 
 Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for . I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia: 
 *The five pillars of Wikipedia 
 *How to edit a page 
 *Editing tutorial 
 *Picture tutorial 
 *How to write a great article 
 *Naming conventions 
 *Simplified Manual of Style 

 ;Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia: 
 * Respect copyrights – do not copy and paste text or images directly from other websites. 
 * Maintain a neutral point of view – this is one of Wikipedia's core policies. 
 * Take particular care while adding biographical material about a living person to any Wikipedia page and follow Wikipedia's Biography of Living Persons policy. Particularly, controversial and negative statements should be referenced with multiple reliable sources. 
 * No edit warring or sock puppetry. 
 * If you are testing, please use the Sandbox to [ do so]. 
 * Do not add troublesome content to any article, such as: copyrighted text, libel, advertising or promotional messages, and text that is not related to an article's subject. Deliberately adding such content or otherwise editing articles maliciously is considered vandalism; doing so will result in your account or IP being blocked from editing. 
 * Do not use talk pages as discussion or forum pages as Wikipedia is not a forum. 

 The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on . By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome!"