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Welcome to Wikipedia! This page lists some locations where you can ask questions or make comments. Once you have chosen an appropriate place to ask your question, follow the instructions on how to post your question. A helpful volunteer will answer your question shortly. Please note that misplaced questions may not be answered quickly.
FAQ main page — questions about using and contributing. Administration — answers some questions related to Administrators. Article subjects — what to do about specific articles. Categories — about using Wikipedia's categories. Contributing — answers to questions commonly asked by contributors.
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Wikipedia does not have a true Internet forum feature with threaded discussion capability, such as you have probably seen on many popular sites such as Google Groups. Instead, the Help desk is an ordinary wiki page, and users type questions and answers with wikitext markup. This can be a problem for users who are very new to Wikipedia, because ...
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The Reference Desk is where our field experts and polymaths hang out, so they are much more likely to be able to answer knowledge queries. Therefore, whether you answer the question or not, provide the user with a useful tip by inserting the template {{subst:HD/rd}}, which says: This page is for questions about editing Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia reference desk works like a library reference desk. Ask a question here and Wikipedia volunteers will try to answer it. Before asking a question, please try the search boxes below to search Wikipedia as a whole or the reference desk archives. See also the reference desk guidelines. Note: Legal or medical advice is prohibited.
Tit for tat: It doesn't matter who asks first. If you expect a question to be answered, you must expect to answer questions. If you are unwilling to answer a question, you must allow others to do so. By asking a question you assert that others have the right to ask questions. If you assume that you should get answers, you must answer questions.