User talk:Geht

Welcome to Wikipedia![edit]

Dear Geht: welcome to Wikipedia, a free and open-content encyclopedia. I hope you enjoy contributing. To help get you settled in, I thought you might find the following pages useful:

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Typos and grammar[edit]

Yes, of course you're allowed to fix them! Welcome to Wikipedia :) - Alison^☺ 00:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the warm welcome! Thanks. Geht 00:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

...but regarding [1] it is usually not right to edit the talk of other editors on the talk pages unless it is to remove personal attacks, blatant trolling and vandalism (like blanking or utter nonsense). Other edits that are permitted are to archive talk or add section headings and other tidying up. On articles you can edit what you like but think of the talk as a discussion separate from the article so errors and typos are what was said - they can help others in meta analysis of the editor. Personally I don't like anyone touching anything of what I add to talk pages. Ttiotsw 00:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for the caution, I'll remember not to edit others' talk then. Hm, what's archiving? I'll go look that up. Geht 00:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]