User talk:PoundTales

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Hello, PoundTales! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking File:OOUI JS signature icon LTR.png or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 05:58, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Getting Help
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File:Face-smile.svgWelcome PoundTales!

Now that you've joined Wikipedia, there are 42,829,520 registered editors!

Hello PoundTales. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions!

I'm Sm8900, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.

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Alternatively, leave me a message at my talk page or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will try to help.

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To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Mypage/sandbox&action=edit&preload=Template:User_Sandbox/preload 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 can put {{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.

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Sincerely, -Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 05:32, 6 January 2022 (UTC) [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sm8900&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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-Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 05:32, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

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