JaredofHawaii

July 2018

Hello, I'm Natureium. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Empty nose syndrome, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Natureium (talk) 14:41, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi, the addition was from the already cited paper, so I didn't think I needed to add a citation. Is there another way to do it if I re-read the already cited articles and added pertinent information from one? JaredofHawaii (talk) 00:01, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for replying to Natureium. Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting (see WP:THREAD) - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and eventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

I know this is insanely unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Jytdog (talk) 02:55, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you Jytdog, I think , if I undestand the format thag I add two colons at the beginning of this message, which I did, becuase you added a single colon in front of your comment, and then at the end I add four squiggly lines to time stamp my comment, which I also did, so this comment should be in-line with community guidelines and proper etiquette. Please let me know if there are any more mistakes, but I think it's all correct, and thank you again JaredofHawaii (talk) 07:57, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

You got it! Jytdog (talk) 13:20, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

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