Gregory Heffley

Hello, Gregory Heffley, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia!

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Good luck and happy changing! The Rambling Man (talk) 13:53, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for your note. What exactly did you need help with? The Rambling Man (talk) 13:53, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

I amconfused with the "simple" partGreg (Heffley · c · l) 20:07, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I saw your help request on TRM's talk page. The "Simple" part just means you write in simple English. Instead of using advanced vocabulary and grammar like on the English Wikipedia, here, we do things nice and simple. A good example is this extract taken from the English article on Planet Earth:

Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered by salt water oceans, with the remainder consisting of continents and islands which together have many lakes and other sources of water that contribute to the hydrosphere. Earth's poles are mostly covered with solid ice (Antarctic ice sheet) or sea ice (Arctic ice cap). The planet's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core. <br\>And this is the same extract, but from the Simple English Wikipedia: <br\>About 71% of Earth's surface is covered in salt water oceans. Earth is the only place in the universe where liquid water is known to exist at present. The other 29% is made of rocky land in the shape of continents and islands. Earth interacts with other objects in the Solar System, particularly the Sun and the Moon. The Earth orbits or circles the Sun roughly once every 365.25 days. One spin of the Earth is called a day and one orbit around the Sun is called a year. This is why there are 365 days in a year. Earth has only one moon, known as the Moon. <br\>Notice that the Simple Wikipedia one, unfortunately, doesn't have as much info, but that's being worked on. But can you see that the simple English one is in short sentences with much simpler vocabulary? That's how it works around here. We have a template for tagging articles that have too complex English, and here, articles copied from the English Wikipedia in particular can be selected for deletion. I hope this helps you get a grasp on what articles should be like here. <br\>Regards, Orashmatash (t • c) 15:33, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

• I see you haven't edited since asking for some start up help, I hope you haven't been put off as the more editors we have here the better. Feel free to 'have a go' writing some articles in simple English. We can always adjust things that aren't quite right and we'll push you in the right direction. Its easy once you get used to it. Just imagine you are speaking to a foreigner, you'd not use really complicated words, you'd speak using the basic words and try to describe things differently (actually if you're like me you'd just SHOUT REALLY LOUDLY AND SLOWLY, the stereotypical British way...). tl;dr Don't be afraid, be WP:BOLD 'cause you won't break anything that can't be undone. So stick around and give it a go? Have these cookies too:

Normandy has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

Regards, Normandy ^(talk) 13:36, 29 September 2011 (UTC)