ColumbidaeX

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A couple of notes regarding your recent edits

Hello.

• When eiting Feral pigeon; I noticed your use of the template {{in use}} was incorrect. To use that (and other templates), place (as you see this rendered) {{in use}} on the page where you want the output transcluded. Adding {{Tlx|in use}} to a page will only produce a link to the template.
• Wikipedia:Citing sources details the correct procedure for, as you might have guessed, citing sources. We prefer to avoid adding external links directly to the article bodies.

Thank you for helping to improve Wikipedia. Happy editing :) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 14:55, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

I apologize, though greatly appreciate your help and cite corrections!! There is still more I'd like to do with the Feral Pigeon article, though this site is going over my head as I'm not experienced with it as I am with the article's subject. ColumbidaeX (talk) 01:09, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

It's no problem :) Just do what you can and someone else will follow on behind. Wikipedia is founded on the idea(L) of disorganised collaboration i.e. the wisdom of the crowd. Don't fret about the stuff you don't know yet; we all had to start somewhere :) If you're in any doubt, ask another editor to do the work on the article talk page, and importantly, don't take any rejections or alterations personally. Also There is no deadline ;) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 01:43, 13 February 2021 (UTC)