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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Thank you for your input! I always appreciate someone giving me tips for making my wikipedia editing better and more useful! Splendidworld12 (talk) 14:27, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Splendidworld12Reply

Recent edit to Natural selection

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  Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Specifically, Charles Darwin's biography uses the British English variant, as clearly stated by the appropriate template at the top of the article. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 16:02, 6 February 2016 (UTC)Reply


Thank you for your input! I appreciate any constructive criticism.Splendidworld12 (talk) 23:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

anno Domini abbreviation

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions of periods to the abbreviation of anno Domini in the Abbey article have been reverted twice, per the Wikipedia manual of style, and as mentioned in the edit summaries of the editor who reverted the changes. You may want to take a look at the section that covers this: MOS:STOPS. Also, please consider using an edit summary when you make a change to an article. Doing so makes it easier for your colleagues here to understand the intention of your edit. Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric talk 21:56, 6 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your advice! Splendidworld12 (talk) 23:17, 8 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome. And again, it's a big help to other editors if you accompany your edits with an edit summary. Please see here: Help:Edit summary. Eric talk 14:56, 11 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

February 2016

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Thank you for your input! I always appreciate someone giving me tips for making my wikipedia editing better and more useful!Splendidworld12 (talk) 15:44, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Spelling correction

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Please do not correct spelling in articles that are not written in American English like you did at Ireland, Wikipedia allows articles to be written in variations of English which include differences in spelling. Have a read of WP:ENGVAR for more information. If you continue to change spellings it may be seen as disruptive so please take care, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 21:18, 1 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Oh sorry! Thanks for letting me know.Splendidworld12 (talk) 21:37, 1 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Serial commas

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Please read MOS:SERIAL. The English Wikipedia allows either style; please do not add serial commas where they are not necessary to disambiguate. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:02, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for sharing. I always learned in grammar that for a list of things one must use commas, but since Wikipeida allows either type of commas, I will refrain from using them so much. Splendidworld12 (talk) 00:23, 6 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Slow down

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Please learn something about Wikipedia before you make mass changes to articles. A few caveats:

  1. Articles require ledes (WP:LEDE)
  2. The serial comma is not required (WP:COMMA, WP:MOS)
  3. Redlinked terms are those that could potentially become articles; do not remove redlinks unless they are to trivial terms that would never become articles. (WP:REDLINK)
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Thank you. 32.218.33.92 (talk) 17:46, 12 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your input. I would much appreciate it if you were more courteous when making suggestions. We are all in this together and kindness is always important. Thank you and good luck with your future critiques and edits Splendidworld12 (talk) 17:29, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

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  Your addition to Street children has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 32.218.33.92 (talk) 18:12, 12 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for letting me know. I was not privy to the fact that I could not copy content even if I cited it.Splendidworld12 (talk) 17:27, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for letting me know. I was not privy to the fact that I could not copy content even if I cited it.Splendidworld12 (talk) 17:27, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

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I did not know I linked that incorrectly. I fixed it so it should be good now. Thanks for making the Wikipedia world a better place. Splendidworld12 (talk) 17:30, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Charles M. Wetherill

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Hello, Splendidworld12. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Charles M. Wetherill, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:06, 14 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

I understand your concern about this article. However, I think this is a very much needed article for Wikipedia. Charles M. Wetherill was an incredible chemist, scientist, and geologist that Wikipedia would be improved by having an article on him. Also, Abraham Lincoln even realized his abilities. Thank you Splendidworld12 (talk) 14:47, 14 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Ancestry.com is not a reliable source

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Please stop adding Ancestry.com family trees as sources to the Charles M. Wetherill article. Not only is it edit warring, but Wikipedia policy is firmly that such trees are not reliable sources because they're self-published. See [1]. 32.218.152.93 (talk) 17:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Please respect non-US varieties of English

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As FoCuSandLeArN explained to you two months ago and MilborneOne explained again two weeks ago, Wikipedia is a resource used by English readers throughout the world. Because of that, articles may be written in British English. Please respect other varieties of English and stop changing the spelling of words from British to U.S. English (e.g., recognise > recognize, favour > favor). Read MOS:ENGVAR for a further explanation. 32.218.152.93 (talk) 19:54, 14 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

IPs are human too

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32.218.43.132 (talk) 23:45, 15 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your attack on 32.X is wholly inappropriate, as is your request that they be blocked for being an IP who disagrees with your edits. While we appreciate your creation of Fish Collars, 32.X cleaned it up and removed inappropriate peacock phasing. They have also correctly noted that your changes in national styles of English are against guidelines. Please respect other editors, whether they're editing from IPs or accounts, and please remember that editors are expected to collaborate to produce appropriate encyclopedic content. You should expect your edits to be examined and occasionally ruthlessly edited or disputed. This is part of the process of producing a high-quality encyclopedia. It is clear that you're still learning. Please accept well-meant advice from more experienced editors, including 32.X. Acroterion (talk) 00:26, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply


Acroterion, I very much appreciate constructive criticism as I have said to others who have respectfully told me when I have done something wrong, and have even said to 32.X when he has been kind. However, this 32.X user has been very rude and not followed Wikipedia's civility policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility as you can see on his talk page and interactions with others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/32.218.43.132. I want to protect my fellow Wikipedia's who do not deserve to be mistreated or disrespected as well as myself. Thank you Splendidworld12 (talk) 00:45, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

32.X has been doing a good job of dealing with copyright violations and inappropriate edits, which sometimes calls for firmness. You aren't being mistreated. You are very new to Wikipedia and have been working with a steep learning curve. I would appreciate it if you took some time to understand the policies and guidelines that 32.X has noted to you. A dismissive attitude on your part is not constructive. Acroterion (talk) 00:54, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

I will definitely try to learn Wikipedia's policies and guidelines better. I always want to be learning better as an editor or in anything else. I agree that firmness is important, but I cannot agree with you in saying that 32.X is just being firm when he speaks in CAPS to others and uses rude terms. Maybe as an editor he is good, but I would appreciate if he started trying to follow the Civility guidelines on Wikipedia. Let's try to maturely drop this and move on in all of us learning... Me learning the policies better and 32.X learning to be kind. Thank you! I appreciate your time. Looking forward to moving forward with us all continuing to try to make Wikipedia a better place. Splendidworld12 (talk) 01:00, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Everybody' has things to learn. Please feel free to ask me questions as needed. Happy editing! Acroterion (talk) 01:47, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

April 2016

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  Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as HMS Pylades (1884). You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 02:52, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia is not censored

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  Hello, I'm 32.218.32.64. I noticed that you removed topically-relevant content from Stadio. However, Wikipedia is not censored to remove content that might be considered objectionable. Please do not remove or censor information that directly relates to the subject of the article. If the content in question involves images, you have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide images that you may find offensive. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. 32.218.32.64 (talk) 00:41, 28 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

"Wikipedia is not censored" means we don't do this. 32.218.32.51 (talk) 15:22, 28 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Hello, Splendidworld12. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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