User talk:American Eagle

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wiktionary. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• How to edit a page is a concise list of technical guidelines to the wiki format we use here: how to, for example, make text boldfaced or make a hyperlink. The Wiktionary tutorial is a more wordy, multi-page document that helps you through those same formatting issues, and also touches on a couple of other issues relevant to editing.
• The document What Wiktionary is not may be of interest. In particular, if you've edited Wikipedia in the past, you should note that Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia and does not have Wikipedia-style page titles.
• How to start a new page is a technical guide to, well, how to start a new page. But you'll also want to look at our guidelines for how to format an entry (what goes where) and our criteria for inclusion (what can be included), which are our two main policy documents. (You can get a feel for how to format an entry by looking at existing entries.)
• The Sandbox is a safe place for testing markup.
• The FAQ has, of course, some frequently (and some infrequently) asked questions, and their answers.

I hope you enjoy editing here! By the way, you can sign your comments on talk (discussion) pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~, which automatically produces your name (or IP number if you're not signed in) and the current date and time. If you have any questions, then see the help pages, add a question to one of the discussion rooms or ask me on my talk page.

(The above automated welcome message is a little belated, I see, in your case, but better late than never, I suppose.) Note that there is no need for you to add interwiki links as you've been doing lately. There is a bot that does so automatically.—msh210℠ 22:28, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I know bots can do it. I'm not really a newbie to Wikimedia. ;) But I have been creating the pages on simple:, and thought I might as well link to it. Thanks anyway for the welcome! American Eagle 22:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)