User talk:Razorbrain

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Razorbrain, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! (✉→BWilkins←✎) 01:29, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you BWilkins. I am looking forward to helping the Wikipedia community.

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What UTC time zone is standand? Is it also okay and a good idea to practice on my user page? Razorbrain (talk) 02:07, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, first of all the UTC time zone is... a UTC time zone. Your local time is relative to that -- for example, it is currently ~2:20AM UTC; where I live, in Eastern Standard Time, it is 9:20PM (EST), since I am in UTC-5. I encourage you to do a bit of research, it highly interesting stuff!
As for practicing, I created a sandbox in your userspace (located at User:Razorbrain/sandbox), where you can pretty much all the testing you want; practically the only limitation is that you are not allowed to include nonfree copyrighted material or personal attacks/harassment.^[1]

Lemme know if there is anything else I can help with! :) Salvidrim! 02:31, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)1, We default to GMT I believe, but you can change your time-zone by going to preferences.

2, The best place to draft stuff and general mess up is in your sandbox, (which you can find via the link right at the top when you are logged in.) You can find out more about that at WP:SAND

To find out what you can and can't do in your user space see here; WP:USERPAGE, put simply this talk page is for other editors to communicate with you and for you to respond. Your actual main user-page is for you to put a bit about yourself and your activities here, it must be noted however that it is not a space for you to do whatever you like with, though it is pretty customisable. Again WP:USERPAGE should help explain that.

You have already found 1 way to get help (by placing the {{help me}} tag on the page) but you can also get help on IRC at #wikipedia-en-help ^connect or at the help desk WP:NUH and lastly information about creating your first article can be found at WP:YFA. --wintonian ^talk 02:31, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]