Valid questions I guess I ll take them point by point Awards There are Barn Stars Wikipedians give to each other You don t need to have any particular background to give one though it is civil to not take one unless awarded Talk pages are not for chit chat but you can write back here for any queries on the project The email link is generally on the left hand side table of the page the third link from bottom You can always use the code to email me Replace my name with any user s you might wish to email However in my case I prefer the talk page discussions rather than email no offence meant it s a preference I hold while communicating with anybody Whenever you might wish to save a page there s a diff method to do it so you can save the links properly Using diffs you get a perma link to your version of the page You could also go to the History link of the Help Page or any page for that matter and save any of the past versions of the page that contains your changes For example is one possible perma link to a version you might wish to save Hope that answers your questions Like I mentioned before feel free to ask me or any help desk member for help whenever Kind regards eave essage