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- I like to play backgammon. My motto is "Reach to the sky, and to the stars, and achieve what you want to achieve." I like to learn & work, but I do what I want to do when I'm not busy. Of course, I like Wikipedia because of what I can learn. I was born on March 15 & my first edit day was September 29, 2006 (you can check). I am a subscriber of the Wikipedia Signpost. Laleena's Files is my former experiment page, it is now the Sandbox. My characters for myself are δΔΞΨЖ. I also experiment at my Sandbox. I am a member of the Short Stories Wikiproject. I am the creator of the Denmark Wikiproject. I took a Wikibreak August 1-August 6.
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There is a six-part guide Introduction to navigating Wikipedia to help Wikipedia contributors. It consists of these topics: If you are interested in editing Wikipedia, this tutorial will help you to get your bearings, learn how to find what you are looking for, and introduce you to a few of the most important pages. – – To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}
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On talk pages, it may be useful to provide a google search link directly in a discussion of a topic's notability or in debates about which name for a subject is the most common. The Wikimedia software that powers Wikipedia lets you make links to Google by including
Which looks like this: Note: It is important not to use spaces in the search. To add more parameters to the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link
Which looks like this: To clean up the link so that only the part you want to show is presented, use the pipe, like this:
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There is good advice at notability guideline for books page for writing new articles about books, as well as updating existing book articles. A book is notable, and generally merits an article, if it verifiably meets through reliable sources, one or more of the following criteria:
- The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself.
- The book has won a major literary award.
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- The book is, or has been, the subject of instruction at two or more schools, colleges, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country.
- The book's author is so historically significant that any of the author's written works may be considered notable.
