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Welcome Quiksandi!

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Hello Quiksandi. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions!

I'm Pdebee, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.

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To get some practice editing you can use a sandbox. You can create your own personal sandbox for use any time. It's perfect for working on bigger projects. Then for easy access in the future, you can put {{My sandbox}} on your userpage.

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The best way to learn about something is to experience it. Explore, learn, contribute, and don't forget to have some fun!

Sincerely, Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 01:34, 28 October 2020 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)[reply]

Hello there Pdebee and thank you for leaving me a welcome message! I was wondering if you know how to create userboxes on user pages, as I would like a few of them. Could you help me out please? Thank you! Quiksandi (talk) 01:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Quiksandi,
Thank you for making contact, and good luck with all your editorial projects in due course. As for userboxes, I learnt how to build them by looking at the code of existing ones and experimenting in one of my separate user pages, now deleted. I would suggest you consider taking the same approach, and I imagine you might already have found the userboxes galleries, where there are tons of examples, as well as our guide to userboxes? Enjoy!
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 14:45, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Note how I indented our exchanges, as advised in WP:INDENT.