Infinitygwen

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Hello, Infinitygwen, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; 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. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:18, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Response

Hi! On my talk page you wrote:

Hello Shalor, I am one of the student editors and I have some quick questions: should I first put my works in sandbox then move them into the live article or can I edit it directly? And where can I leave the edit summary? Because I just finished editing some information and don't know whether I should publish the change or not. Thank you so much.

It's best to work in the sandbox and then move your changes live once you've finished what you want to change. This way you don't have to worry about having everything finished right away and you have more time to find sourcing and tweak the writing. You can edit directly to the article but there's an expectation that the content will be ready right away and properly formatted, which can sometimes be an issue if you're copying from an external place like Google Docs or similar. On a related note, it's best to work directly in your sandbox than Google Docs since the two sites use some different formatting. As such sometimes the formatting in a Google Doc won't be copied over properly and can cause issues on Wikipedia. I'm also not able to give feedback on the Google Doc since I'm unable to see it.

With edit summaries, this should pop up when you press the "publish changes" button. The field should look like this, in Visual Editor mode:

Let me know if this doesn't answer your questions! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:19, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Source

Hi - can you send me a message with a link to the source? I think it may be that you have a proxy URl. My email is shalorwikiedu.org. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 10:18, 20 November 2019 (UTC)