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[edit]Thanks for all your edits on various journal articles. Could you check that wikilinks you add point to the articles you intended, as many (eg journal, index) point to disambiguation pages which is not helpful to the reader.— Rod talk 09:07, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi, thank you for your edits on articles on academic journals, we need more knowledgeable editors in this area! However, I have undone several of the edits that you made today (not all, I don't have time to check everything) because they are either no improvement or even unwanted. Here's some of the issues: you added unnecessary bolding or italics to several article. We only bold the article title in the first sentence of the lead and only use italics for journal or book titles. You also added quite a few unnecessary wikilinks: we only link the first occurrence of a word/expression, we don't link parts of a name (for example, we don't wikilink "mental health" in the name "Institute for Mental Health". We do not add initialisms ("IF") if they are not used in the rest of the article. Also, we do not generally wikilink words that are so common that it may be assumed that people know what it is ("Germany", "research", etc).
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Happy editing! --Randykitty (talk) 11:09, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello, can you introduce yourself ? Why are you reverting my editing ? I have check the guidelines, but I do not think I made something wrong. Please explain. I feel your warning is kind of your own feelings. I don't feel it is objective view. However, I follow the guidelines at any how. Small editing is also important because it means it is getting paid attention from all users. Better than nothing also. I can accept your advice, however I cannot accept your forced commend likely 'STOP'. There is nobody here wikipedia's community who is boss or not. 134adsl (talk) 22:30, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- I explained in detail above why I reverted your edits. You most certainly did several things wrong. You added unnecessary wikilinks or wikilinks to targets that were misleading. You introduced tags that were useless or even screwed things up (like unnecessary "nowiki" tags). And while you are in principle correct that nobody here is "boss", admins like myself can block editors from editing if they damage the encyclopedia no matter how well intended. And while I accept that your intentions are good, if you continue making edits after having been told that they are undesirable is considered disruptive and will lead to a block. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 22:47, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
I got it. Thank you. It helps. I didn't know those kind of things. 134adsl (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Removing blanks
[edit]Please don't make any edits that only remove some extra blanks. The WP software is such that there is no difference in the output. Edits like this should only be made as a part of a more important edit (if at all), because otherwise they just clog up the watchlist of other editors. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 19:12, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Can you let know about 'Clog up' the watchlist ? I don't understand what it is. 134adsl (talk) 22:35, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- You need to familiarize yourself with how WP works. A watchlist lists all changes made to articles that an editor is interested in. So making edits that don't change anything (like removing extra blanks) will leave an alert on all those people's watchlists. Even worse if you use 4 sequential edits to remove 4 extra blanks, that will leave 4 alerts, and people will need to check to see what's going on. Such changes can be done in one single edit, at the same time that something really substantial is changed. If you have nothing substantial to contribute, you don't remove those 4 spare blanks either as a courtesy to those editors who are watching the page. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 22:41, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
I didn't know that this: Even worse if you use 4 sequential edits to remove 4 extra blanks, that will leave 4 alerts, It is helpful.Thank you. 134adsl (talk) 23:38, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Ways to improve TeRra Magazine
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Thank you for creating TeRra Magazine.
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Thank you for this article. More (independent) references to this magazine are needed.
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Epoch Times reference at Poly Music
[edit]Hi. Please do not use the Epoch Times as you did at Poly Music. It is not a reliable source. See WP:EPOCHTIMES. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 09:54, 29 May 2021 (UTC) Thank you very much, really didn't know how it was, really thank you very much 134adsl (talk) 03:20, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
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