BandH2020

April 2021

Hi BandH2020! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at St. Joseph School (South Bend, Indiana) that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Tol | Talk | Contribs 23:09, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello and thank you. First of all, I'm new to Wikipedia and still a learner. I have a bit of experience with html and thought I could apply that here. Secondly, I'll try not to make that mistake in the future. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BandH2020 (talk • contribs) 23:16, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

@BandH2020: No problem; thank you for your contributions! Please sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~), and indent your replies to other posts with colons (:). Thank you, Tol | Talk | Contribs 16:46, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:South Bend Police Department has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:South Bend Police Department. Thanks! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:52, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: South Bend Police Department (April 21)

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Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^{Talk to me} 15:59, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello, BandH2020! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 15:59, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

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You have shown interest in post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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Tol | Talk | Contribs 16:49, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

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June 2021

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Transportation in South Bend, Indiana. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. —twotwofourtysix^{(My talk page and contributions)} 02:36, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, however was this was my intention. The maintenance template cited two issues with the article; bare URLs and link rot as well as not citing all of the necessary resources. I removed part of the message (on purpose) because I had removed and replaced all the links that suffered from link rot. I will be sure to give reason for things like this in the future by using the edit summary feature. BandH2020 (talk) 15:31, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

The problem is not really links that have actually suffered from link rot per se. It's that the article uses bare URLs which increases the risk of the sources being unverifiable if the links suffer from link rot in the future. —twotwofourtysix^{(My talk page and contributions)} 23:31, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. That is much clearer. I believe that I understand now. One last question; when I wanted to create this article (Transportation in South Bend, Indiana), it was never a draft. It was never even reviewed and immediately moved to the articles section. Is there a reason for this? BandH2020 (talk) 23:51, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

So every autoconfirmed users, including yourself, can create articles without going to the draft process first, but if you want to use that process, you can go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation. —twotwofourtysix^{(My talk page and contributions)} 00:09, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: South Bend Common Council (July 18)

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Sionk (talk) 12:51, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: South Bend Police Department has been accepted

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, this draft is an exact replica of another article I created by the same name. It is no longer needed for the development of the other article. Thanks, BandH2020 (talk) 01:09, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

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