From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference

Welcome to Memory Alpha, 1985! I've noticed that you've already made some contributions to our database – thank you! We all hope that you'll enjoy our activities here and decide to join our community.

If you'd like to learn more about working with the nuts and bolts of Memory Alpha, I have a few links that you might want to check out:

• Our policies and guidelines provides links to inform you on what is appropriate for Memory Alpha and what is not. Particular items of note are the canon policy, the editing guidelines, our point of view, copyrights and guidelines for proper etiquette.
• How to edit a page includes a basic tutorial about how to use our special wikitext code here on Memory Alpha.
• Naming conventions provides guidelines on how to name a new page that you may want to create.
• The Manual of Style is an overview of the basic guidelines for how to format and style your articles.
• How to write a great article is a list of suggestions that can help you put together an article that might end up on our Featured Articles list someday.
• See the user projects page for current projects of our archivists, or help us to reduce the number of stubs.
• Look up past changes you have made in your contributions log.
• Keep track of your favorite Memory Alpha articles through your very own watchlist.
• Create your own user page and be contacted on this page, your talk page.

One other suggestion: if you're going to make comments on talk pages or make other sorts of comments, please be sure to sign them with four tildes (~~~~) to paste in your user name and the date/time of the comment.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in our Ten Forward community page. Thanks, and once again, welcome to Memory Alpha! --Alan del Beccio 23:50, 1 Sep 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: "I think you spend too much time on this..."

Thanks, I guess, but I didn't do all the lists in one sitting. You'd be surprised, but it only takes me a couple hours tops to do a certain list, and I usually only do one a night, with sometimes several nights inbetween. Also, if you have any other comments about my second page I would prefer if you post it on my main talk page, that way I get a nice notice on the top of the screen that says "You have new messages." For some odd reason I really like those.--Tim Thomason 03:33, 7 Sep 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Watch out! The changes are reflected everywhere the template is used (see "Past Tense, Part I") Rcog 18:03, 10 Sep 2005 (UTC)