User talk:--steph--

hi. my name is steph. i'm a 15 year old girl from Australia and i'm new to this site. i don't really know what i should be doing but i think its a really fresh idea for a site and i want to get involved. so if anyone could help me out with how everything works thatd be good. i know there are instructions but theyre really extensive and i was wondering if someone would be willing to summarise. thanks

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Meelar (talk) 05:40, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

am i allowed to write opinion pieces or does it all have to be factual stuff that would be found in encyclopedias?

sorry ~~

hey doing ~~ didn't work ?