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Just click on the word "talk" following my userid, and you will go to my talk page. Then click on "new section" and you can create a reply to me. Incidentally, I create many welcome greetings, and you are the first in many months to answer at all. Please feel welcome, and go ahead and reply on my talk page, if only for the practice. Oh, Happy New Year! --DThomsen8 (talk) 05:51, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Let me suggest Outline of Wikipedia as a starting point for learning about Wikipedia, and especially the books listed there. Wikipedia – The Missing Manual is available here and being expanded by editors, and of course available on paper and I would expect as an ebook on Nook and Kindle.
You should see a notice that this message is here when you log on. I suspect you missed my message following the welcome because I put both up together.
Of course you can sign messages on talk pages whatever way you like, and beyond that, you can put whatever you like about yourself on your user page, which right now is virgin space. You should look at a lot of user pages before you decide what you want to put on yours. Some veterans have a lot of material, and others just a little bit, even when they have thousands of edits.
I have responded here for your convenience in following up on my suggestions, but I have also left a message on my talk page. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:34, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. I hope you don't mind but I've reverted your changes at Stefan Zweig. It seemed to me that your "punctuation corrections" were not really corrections but a change of style from British (etc) to American English punctuation style. If you have a look at WP:ENGVAR you'll see that this is frowned upon, at least without consensus being reached first. I think it would be wise for you to go very cautiously on this as ENGVAR matters tend to get people pretty hot under the collar round here! :) I've also reverted your text changes. I was initially intending to preserve them (which is why the edit summary is misleading and was corrected with a dummy edit) but then I realized that you appeared to have "corrected" material which was quoted from Time. Obviously, we don't do that, so I wondered if you knew that it was misquoted and you really were correcting it? If so, this could probably have done with a comment to avoid misunderstanding. Hope this helps. Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 09:51, 25 January 2012 (UTC)