Ritschke11

Hello, Ritschke11 !

Some Scottish butter shortbread fingers to welcome you!

Thank you for your interesting contributions to our Venezuela articles and welcome to Wikivoyage, Ritschke11 !

To help you contribute, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and our house style as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

However, even more important than following every guideline is to PLUNGE FORWARD and write something useful – someone might be along to help with the proper formatting later if we're both lucky...

Add your home town, or a place you know well or write some insider tips - but please don't use first person pronouns.

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If you need help, check out Wikivoyage:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. We're looking forward to seeing you again here on Wikivoyage now you're a registered user! --W. Frank^email_talk 00:55, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to join in welcoming you and thanking you for adding all that interesting content! Please keep plunging forward, and don't worry too much about minor instances of variance from Wikivoyage style, as more experienced users will edit them and inform you about them in edit summaries and here on your user talk page. For example, it is not the style of a travel guide such as this one to use first person pronouns or accounts. We also don't want to be in the business of denigrating nationalities ("In my humble opinion, German tourists are the worst degraders of the trail").

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)