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Welcome to Wikipedia!I'm Ad Orientem, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge. Although you're free to perform most tasks on Wikipedia without registering, it's highly recommended you create an account as there are many added benefits. It's private and secure and it's also free, simple, and quick to do.
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To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. If you register an account, you can create your own personal sandbox for use any time. It's perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you could put a link to it on your user page.
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- Always sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the
button on the edit toolbar or by typing four tildes ~~~~at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your IP address linked to your contributions page (however, if you create an account, your IP address will be hidden and you will be able to build a custom signature that can link to your own user page), a link to this IP's talk page, and a timestamp. - Leave descriptive edit summaries for your edits. Doing so helps other editors understand what changes you have made and why you made them.
Sincerely, Ad Orientem (talk) (Leave me a message) 16:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Ad Orientem (talk) 16:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
February 2024
Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that one or more recent edit(s) you made did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.
The edit summary field looks like this:
Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)
Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → 
Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary, and then click the "Save" button.Thanks! Ad Orientem (talk) 16:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
April 2024
Hello, I'm Bruce1ee. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Waxing have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. —Bruce1eetalk 14:57, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Shaving in Judaism, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Muffin(Spreading Democracy, one edit at a time) 06:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Warpcon, you may be blocked from editing. Fanfanboy (talk) 18:17, 24 April 2024 (UTC)