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The Troubles

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Your good faith edit to the above article has been reverted as ORIGINAL RESEARCH and unsourced text. Rms125a@hotmail.com 02:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

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  • Hi! I looked into this and it actually looks like this image is already on Wikimedia Commons under the name File:Aldrin Apollo 11.jpg. Since this makes your image a duplicate, it will unfortunately likely have to be removed from Commons. This can be an easy mistake to make so don't take it too badly - just be more careful next time. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:44, 7 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
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April 2019

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  Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Space colonization. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please don't add opinion and unsourced speculation; this is WP:SYNTH and WP:OR. Also, your use of English grammar and spelling is poor. Practice more in your sandbox and ask for help, WP:HELP. Zefr (talk) 13:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Please help me with improving my grammar in my edit on the Space Colonization page. I've reviewed it and critiqued it multiple times and yet I still keep getting my edits removed! Any help would be much appreciated. This is a new type of writing for me, and it's difficult to see what information is biased when I have so many sources and all of them are reliable sites.

Joeygaig (talk) 16:05, 9 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

We can't improve your grammar skills for you, you need to do this yourself as a certain level of skill with grammar is required to adequately participate here. Your grammar is not the only or even most important issue; the user that removed your edits said in the edit summary "Speculation, synthesis, and opinion". Please read about original research. 331dot (talk) 16:27, 9 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
If you are editing as part of a class, I would suggest consulting with your instructor/teacher. 331dot (talk) 16:29, 9 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

I consulted with my teacher, as well as made the necessary changes and improved the grammar in my edit. However, wouldn't all of the information be speculative? Space Colonization is a theoretical concept, and most of the content in the article itself is theoretical as well such as landing on asteroids for money since we haven't actually accomplished any of these. I read the article concerning original research, and most of if not all of my facts were backed by citations from reliable sources, mostly from NASA studies and professional research papers.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeygaig (talkcontribs)

You'd have to take that up with the editor that initially reverted you. 331dot (talk) 01:16, 10 April 2019 (UTC)Reply