User talk:Catchthedream
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Since no one has welcomed you yet, I thought I'd be first:
[edit] Welcome
Hello, Catchthedream, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Henrik 07:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Answer to your question
If you begin a sentence with a space, it will be shown in a preformatted font and style - the is suitable for, for example, computer code. So when you tried to mark paragraphs with spaces in the beginning, it was interpreted as you wanted a preformatted section. This is an example of "wiki markup", and you can read more about that in Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. If you have any more questions, just ask away. Happy editing! Henrik 07:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Summaries
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.
--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
