Wrestling Angel
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editPlease calm down. Regards ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 13:40, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
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How to write articles that do not get deleted
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- 4) Summarize those sources from step 2, adding citations at the end of them. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer.
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- 6) Paraphrase the whole thing just to be extra sure you've avoided any copyright violations or plagiarism.
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Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:33, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:48, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Your missing my point
editI edited Tom’s page and that was the ONLY reason I even signed up. I watched for two days before I edited it and IncrediblyHulk had gone on multiple times to edit Tom’s page because it kept saying “last Edited...” only a few hours earlier...multiple times by this guy. He seems to take down anything anyone changes...not just me or Tom’s family. I am not adding any page and I gave links to many things that verifies everything i changed earlier today on the help forum, I have nothing more to say and hope someone takes those links and properly edits Tom’s page with the FACTS. If anyone would bother to look at the references listed under Tom’s page it includes articles that are NOT in your version of credible. Articles speculating why Tom got sick, and nothing beyond Tabloid Rumors. Yet I’m getting stuff like this about your rules, well enforce your own rules against your volunteers. Yes I am upset, but if you loved someone and knew them for 25 years and they died and you see the web site that many refer to for reference acting like your loved one wasn’t a human being and posting false criminal activity, then when you try to change it get trashed and ignored....well wouldn’t you be upset? I don’t think this is what Jimmy Wales planned when he started Wikipedia. Wrestling Angel (talk) 16:49, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
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