User:Leahtwosaints

I am a contributing editor of the English Wikipedia.

I am completely new to Wikimedia and am hoping someone here will help me learn how to upload photos and place them in galleries etc. The same is true for those little sound clips that truly are great on barnstar pages.

Can someone give me a hand? Is there an adoption thing here? Please contact me if this is so. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 21:54, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Some favourite early uploads

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  Jeff Beck
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  David Lindley
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  Waddy Wachtel
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  Mark Knopfler
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  Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks
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  Tim Finn of Split Enz
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  Tal Wilkenfeld
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  Cindy Blackman
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  Eric Clapton
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  Marcella Detroit
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  Mick Taylor with the Rolling Stones
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  Peter Gabriel

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Unfortunetely, not one stinking suggestion above works for me since I don't absorb people's instructions as quickly or easily as most people do, so prospective teachers here don't seem to hang around long enough be be certain that I actually understand how things work here.