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Hello, {{<includeonly>safesubst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}}! '''Welcome to Wikipedia!''' It appears that you are here to participate in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we ''highly encourage'' you to go through our training page that's specifically created and catered for students such as yourself:


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If you need help, check out Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Questions|page for questions]]. You can also ask me by visiting {{#if:{{{1|}}}|[[user talk:{{{1}}}|my user talk page]]|my user talk page}} and leaving a message, or you can ask your question on ''this page'' by editing it and placing <code>{{t|Help me}}</code> before your question. Please make sure that you [[Wikipedia:Signatures|sign]] your messages on [[Help:Using talk pages|discussion page]]s, which is done by entering four [[tilde]]s (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) at the very end of it; this will automatically insert your username and the date. I also highly recommend that you review the [[WP:STUDENTS|advice for students]] page.

Before you create an article, make sure that you understand [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|what kind of articles are accepted here]]. Remember: ''Wikipedia is an encyclopedia'', and while many topics are encyclopedic, [[WP:N|some things are not]].

Your instructor or professor may wish to [[Wikipedia:Education program/Educators|set up a course page]], and if your class doesn't already have one, please tell your instructor about creating one. It is highly recommended that you place this text: <code>{{t|Educational assignment}}</code> on the talk page of any articles you are working on as part of your Wikipedia-related course assignment. This will let other editors know that the article is a subject of an educational assignment as well as aid your communication with them. 

<u>Here are some more pages that you might find helpful</u>:
*[[Wikipedia:Five pillars|The five pillars of Wikipedia]]
*[[Help:Editing|How to edit a page]] ([[WP:E|editing policy]])
*[[Help:Introduction/All|Introduction to Wikipedia]]
*[[Help:Contents|Help pages index]]
*[[Help:VisualEditor|Visual editor tutorial]]
*[[H:WT|Wikitext tutorial]] (if you're choosing to edit pages using the Wikitext source code instead of the [[WP:VE|VisualEditor]])
*[[Wikipedia:Cheatsheet|Wikitext cheatsheet]]

<u>While editing</u>:
* Maintain a [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] – this is one of Wikipedia's core [[Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines|policies]].
* [[WP:BOLD|Be bold]], but do not add troublesome content to any [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|article]], such as: [[copyright]]ed text, [[Wikipedia:Libel|libel]], [[Wikipedia:Spam#Advertisements masquerading as articles|advertising]] or [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion|promotional messages]], and text that is not related to an article's subject; doing so will result in your account or IP being [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked from editing]].
* [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|Respect copyrights]] – do not copy and paste text or images directly from other websites.
* No [[Wikipedia:Edit warring|edit warring]] or [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry|abuse of multiple accounts]].
* [[Help:Wikitext#References_and_citing_sources|Provide]] [[WP:V|reliable sources]] to the content you add. If you are adding [[Wikipedia:Biomedical information|biomedical information]], please follow [[WP:MEDRS|this guideline]].
* Take particular care while adding biographical material about a living person to any Wikipedia page and follow [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|Wikipedia's Biography of Living Persons policy]]. Particularly, controversial and negative statements should be [[Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1|referenced]] with multiple [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources]].
* If you are testing, please use the [[Draft:Sandbox|Sandbox]] to <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Sandbox|action=edit}} do so]</span>.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay with us as a member of the community - even after your assignment is finished. Your time, energy, and your contributions will be ''highly valued'' and appreciated among us. <!--Template:Welcome student-->
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