User talk:MichaelBillington
I figured I'd give you the standard welcome message, although I'm sure you've already got the hang of the place just by looking at a couple of entries. Happy editing!
Welcome
[edit]Hello, welcome to Wiktionary, and thank you for your contributions so far.
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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 14:19, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
One more (minor) thing - we don't like redirects here that much, unlike Wikipedia. So when you create a redirect by moving a page (for fixing an error, like atalii-->atali'i), please edit the redirect with the text {{d}}, which will categorise it for imminent deletion. Thanks! --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 14:18, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the tip. --MichaelBillington (talk) 01:41, 26 May 2012 (UTC)