Work in progess fix for T:WN. I'm still trying to pare it down some more. 
00:24, 26 April 2010 (BST)
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Hi Misanthropy/Sandbox11! Welcome to the Urban Dead Wiki. Don't be afraid of being new - we've compiled a few useful tips to help you get started with the community. Please take the time to read them below.
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- If you write a comment, sign it! You can do this by writing "~~~~" at the end of your comment, or by using this button
 on the top of the edit page.
- You may want to know how your edits will look before they have been saved, to make sure that nothing is wrong. Use the "Preview" button before the "Save" button - it's your friend!
- If you're slow in your editing and there's an editing conflict, you might not understand the error that you get. The easiest way to overcome the edit conflict is to copy whatever you have been writing, go back with your browser, and then re-enter the edit page so that you can add your edits without deleting those made before yours.
- The wiki is a collaborative project, please try to work alongside others. Never delete someone else's edits, comments, etc, from community pages. To do so is considered vandalism.
Further help for editing the wiki can be found on the Help page, or you may want to visit the Project Mentor page for more hands-on help.
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| Your User Space
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One of the great things about the wiki is that every user can have their own user page! These pages are located in the User: namespace — in other words, they all begin with "User:" (yours is User:Misanthropy/Sandbox11). The appropriate place to write about yourself or your characters is on your user page, or a subpage of that page (e.g., User:Misanthropy/Sandbox11/Your Character's Name). Don't create pages about yourself outside the User: namespace. They will be moved into subpages of your user page, and the original speedily deleted. If you want something deleted, use the speedy deletion page; that's what Criterion 7 is for.
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| User Talk Pages
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- Every user has a talk page, found by clicking the "discussion" link at the top of their user page, or by going directly to it (yours would be User talk:Misanthropy/Sandbox11). If you have a question for someone, or want to say something to him or her, their user talk page is the place.
- Many users on the wiki maintain guidelines for how their user talk pages are to be treated — where new comments should go, how they should be written, what is or isn't ok to discuss, etc. Be sure to look for guidelines on the talk page before you leave a comment. If you don't see anything specified, you should place your comment at the bottom of the talk page, under a level 2 heading. This can be done via the "+" link next to the "edit" tab at the top of the talk page.
- When replying to a comment already present, remember to indent it correctly: do so by adding an increasing amount of colons to each stage of the conversation, at the beginning of the comment. Each colon adds an extra indentation to the line on which it is used.
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| The Suggestions Page
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We know that as a new user, you want to share your ideas with us. But a community as big as ours has already seen all kind of suggestions, and it's possible that we've already seen something very similar to the ideas you have. Follow these simple guidelines to make sure that your suggestion gets the respect that it deserves:
- Firstly, read the Suggestions advice. Also, we strongly recommend you read the Dos and Do Nots and the Frequently Suggested Ideas so that you'll have an idea of what kind of suggestions are likely to be accepted and what kind are often rejected by the community. The pages might look time-consuming to read, but you will find them entertaining and helpful.
- You might also want to look at the Previous Days Suggestions. These contain a record of all previous suggestions. Use the search function in your browser to search for keywords relating to the suggestion you want to make.
- You can't modify a suggestion that you've written once it has been posted on the Suggestions page. You can withdraw and resubmit it with changes later, but please do so sparingly.
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| Additional Contacts
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If there's anything not covered by this introduction, you still have plenty of avenues to find some extra help. Project Welcome and Project Mentor are perfect starting points, but if you have something more pressing at hand, don't be afraid to get in touch with the administration staff - Aichon, Boxy, Cheese, Misanthropy, Red Hawk One, Rosslessness, Suicidalangel, The General and The Rooster.
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Remember: These guidelines may look difficult to learn and follow, but they're mostly common sense! Think about what you're going to say or do before you do it, and always feel free to ask any Project Welcome member if you need any additional help!
If you want to delete this text, just delete the {{Welcomenewbie}} line from your talk page. Remember that you can always have access to these tips on the Project Welcome/Welcomenewbie page.
