Cowburn88

Hello, Cowburn88!

Cowburn88! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for joining. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia.

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If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing!  Asenine  19:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

Hello, Matt. I would be delighted to adopt you, simply copy {{adoptee|Asenine}} to your userpage, and we can begin. In future, you don't have to put your name after your posts, just put four tildes (~~~~) after your post, and it will sign the date and your username automatically to make it easier to reply to your posts. I look forward to working with you. :)  Asenine  19:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Also, please remember to use edit summaries to let other users know what you are doing in a nutshell.  Asenine  19:59, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

References

Hello again, Matt! Here's how to do it:

<ref>{{cite web |url= [url you want]|title= [title of the page]|accessdate=YYYY-MM-DD |work= [who was the writer]|publisher= [who was the publisher]|date= [date it was made]}}

If you don't know what one of the values for these fields should be, just leave it blank. :)  Asenine  20:31, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

		Merry Christmas!
		Cowburn88, here's hoping you're having a wonderful Christmas, and here's also hoping that all your family and friends are well. Lets all hope that the year coming will be a good one! If we've had disputes in the past, I hold no grudges, especially at such a time as this. If you don't know I am, I apologise, feel free to remove this from your page. Come and say hi, I won't bite, I swear! It could even be good for me, you know - I'm feeling a little down at the moment with all of these snowmen giving me the cold shoulder :( — neur ho ho ho(talk) 00:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

A cat to ease all of your troubles		Happy New Year!
		Hey there, Cowburn88! Happy new Gregorian year. All the best for the new year, both towards you and your family and friends too. I know that I am the only person lonely enough to be running this thing as the new year is ushered in, but meh, what are you going to do. I like to keep my templated messages in a satisfactorily melancholy tone. ;) Congratulations to Coren, Wizardman, Vassyana, Carcharoth, Jayvdb, Casliber, Risker, Roger Davies, Cool Hand Luke and Rlevse, who were all appointed to the Arbitration Committee after the ArbCom elections. I am sure I am but a voice of many when I say I trust the aforementioned users to improve the committee, each in their own way, as listed within their respective election statements. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to update the 2009 article, heh. Best wishes, neuro(talk) 00:44, 1 January 2009 (UTC)