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Hello, CPM1999, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:43, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

How to link to other wikipedia articles and external URLs

Hi and welcome. I had to revert your edit to Internet meme because you added links to other wikipedia articles incorrectly. A word can be linked to its related article, but it should be in the context of a sentence, not just a word plopped in at random. To format a word to link to an article, put the word that matches the article title between two double brackets like this: [[evolution]]. It will render like this: evolution. Happy editing! Schazjmd (talk) 23:33, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

I had to revert your following edit as well. External URLs don't go in the body of an article like that. They can be used in sources between <ref> </ref> tags, or in an External links section at the end of the page, never in the body. Schazjmd (talk) 23:36, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Also, please read [{WP:RS|the policy on reliable sources]]. Medium.com, blogs, and other self-published content are not acceptable sources. Schazjmd (talk) 23:41, 15 April 2022 (UTC)