User talk:Dezza91

Help?

I read your user page and it said you were looking for help with getting the hang of Wikipedia editing. My advice is to read the Help:Contents stuff when you are stuck, but otherwise to just try things out. The basic formatting is pretty simple and there's a one-pager at Wikipedia:Cheatsheet which covers the essential stuff. You can use the Wikipedia:Sandbox for testing things. Or you can create your own sandbox. Clicking here → User:Dezza91/Sandbox ← will create one. It's also easier - or so I reckon - to write stuff in your sandbox and then just cut and paste it into a new article.

For fancy things like the boxes that you see in articles, the easiest way to copy them is to copy them! Click edit on the article you want to copy, copy, and paste into the one you are editing and change the bits you want to change. When you see stuff inside two curly brackets, like {{States and territories of Australia}}, that's a template. The name of the template will be Template:States and territories of Australia, and you can see what it looks like, and what it does, by looking there. Some templates need parameters, and that should be explained on the template page.

Hope this helps. If you've got any questions, give me a yell. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Message

Any reason for the message blaming my IP for a non-existant edit done on an article ive never looked at?Dezza91 (talk) 12:52, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Messages on IP address talk pages may not apply to the person who next sees it. If someone else used the same IP address as you to make an anonymous edit, then the next time you visit Wikipedia but without being logged on, you will see the "new message" alert even if the message wasn't intended for you specifically. IP addresses can be shared between multiple computers connected to the same internet service provider, or the address can change every time you connect your modem/router. The message was probably intended for someone else entirely who just happened to use the same IP address at some point previously. ~Matticus ^U_C 13:00, 22 July 2008 (UTC)