Valid questions I guess Ill take them point by point  Awards There are Barn Stars Wikipedians give to each other You dont need to have any particular background to give one though it is civil to not take one unless awarded   Talk pages are not for chitchat 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 httpenwikipediaorgwikiSpecialEmailUserWifione to email me Replace my name with any users you might wish to email However in my case I prefer the talk page discussions rather than email no offence meant its a preference I hold while communicating with anybody  Whenever you might wish to save a page theres a diff method to do it so you can save the links properly Using diffs you get a permalink 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 httpenwikipediaorgwindexphptitleWikipediaNewcontributorshelppageoldid is one possible permalink 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