VickyBenz

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Linking

Hello VickyBenz, I noticed that you have recently added lots of links in Wikipedia articles, but unfortunately many of them not very useful and not according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Some examples:

• Everyday words like woman, children, combination
• Disambiguation pages like Native
• Links to the article itself, such as Teenage pregnancy, Canadian football, and Morris County Traction Company
• Country names like Canada, United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Australia
• Well-known places like Africa and Asia
• Common occupations like professor, politician
• In general a link should occur only once in a Wikipedia article, or maybe once in the lead and once in the main text. It should be on the first occurrence of the word.

Before you add any more links to articles, you might want to read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking and especially the section "What generally should not be linked". I reverted some of your edits. Keesal (talk) 09:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Please stop damaging Wikipedia

All of your recent edits harm Wikipedia, since what you do is either change correct English grammar and punctuation to incorrect or make unnecessary wikilinks. Please stop doing this, since everyone is welcome to edit WP to *improve* it, not the other way around.

If you refuse to do so, you will be blocked simply to stop the content damage coming from you. 188.66.32.62 (talk) 08:52, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

If you are willing to make Wikipedia better

VickyBenz, can you say whether you are a native English speaker? I'm asking because you change correct English grammar and punctuation to incorrect, thus damaging content. The other way you damage content is by making unneeded wikilinks (as another editor has explained to you). Much of the damage you did has been fixed already, but not all of it. If you are willing to make Wikipedia better, then please help undo the damage you have done so far in the first place: revert (undo) those edits of yours which damaged content in one way or another (to be honest, I think it means reverting all of the edits you made). If you need some help, don't hesitate to ask. 188.66.34.125 (talk) 15:40, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Okay…..bur it will take some couple of days VickyBenz (talk) 18:26, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

I don’t know how to revert (undo) the edit. Can you please teach me how to do that 😞😔 VickyBenz (talk) 03:49, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

• VickyBenz, the instructions are at Help:Revert. Unfortunately, it seems to be hard to do on the mobile view.

The usual advice for editors on smartphones etc. is to switch to the desktop version of the site. If you scroll to the bottom of a Wikipedia page, you should have a link "desktop" that will force the desktop version. (Depending on your browsers, you may have a browser setting called "request desktop version" or similar. That can be used on any site, not just Wikipedia, and is accomplished by "lying" to the website so that the website sends the content it would have sent to a desktop computer. Using the in-Wikipedia option is probably slightly better.)

I highly suggest to read User:Cullen328/Smartphone_editing#How_I_edit_by_smartphone for more general help about mobile editing. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 10:49, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Okay ✅ VickyBenz (talk) 21:18, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Hope you are okay with the emoji VickyBenz (talk) 21:35, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello VickyBenz

Hello VickyBenz, I know you've had an unpleasant recent encounter. I also understand that navigating and editing of Wikipedia has just become much harder for you because you now realize just how impactful and damaging editing can be if it's not done correctly. I'm not here to pile on. I'm here to encourage you. There is so much that goes into editing that it can be frightening, especially once your eyes have been opened to the extent edits like these go against policy. Don't be scared though. Wikipedia wants you to be bold. But it's so important that you learn how to edit successfully. @Rasnaboy left you an amazing welcome message full of important links and tips you need to learn to be a great editor and I am convinced you can be. So, don't give up because you might have made a mistake. We all have. We are here to assist you if it's something you really want to do. Please ask questions if you don't know what to do next. --ARoseWolf 12:34, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay Thanks VickyBenz (talk) 18:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC)