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Still a definite newbie to the Wikipedia, QuantumEleven is trying very hard to fit in an not to tread on anyone's toes. He discovered the joys of Wikipedia during his first real job... and everything has been doing downhill since...

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The Kindness of Others

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This Barnstar of Diligence is awarded to QuantumEleven for your tireless answering of questions at the Newcomers help page. -- Natalya 17:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
I, Ikiroid, award Quantum Eleven a smiley for helping me at the Reference Desk.
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
As one of the top four contributors to Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, you deserve this barnstar. Thank you! Jreferee (Talk) 05:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Gratuitous Information

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This user is a paladin.
This user detests tobacco smoke.
This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ).
This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy.
This user contributes using Firefox.
This user is a Board Game Geek.
This user prefers the metric system.
CIVThis user loves to play Civilization.
This user settled Catan.

Tip of the Day

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Redirect synonymous topic names

Many topics are naturally referred to by different names. For example, baby and infant mean the same thing. But Wikipedia doesn't have a separate article for each synonym (one article defining babies is enough). Therefore, Wikipedia includes a method for linking synonyms so that they lead to the same article. This is done using redirects.

To create a redirect, start a new page for the synonym and in it put only this:

#REDIRECT [[target page]]

...where target page is the name of the article the synonym should lead to. When a user clicks on a link with the synonym, he or she is automatically sent to the [[target page]].

Here is another example: Elizabeth II also appears under the titles Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth II of England, and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Caveat: do not manually create redirects when you want to rename a page, because then the history of the page resides at the old title. Use the move tab instead, found at the top of every page, which also moves the history.

Read more:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}

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