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The Mandela Catalogue edit

Hey do you mind keeping an eye on the article (and by extension the talk page) in case someone makes poorly or unsourced edits that violates BLP? Trade (talk) 20:25, 17 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! edit

Hi there, I just wanted to thank you for also keeping track of all those attempted COI edits on the "Polyvagal Theory" page. It's nice not to have to do it alone... Oleasylvestris (talk) 09:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC) Correction: I know there have also been others keeping an eye on this, this is not to undervalue their contributions. Oleasylvestris (talk) 09:41, 18 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Notability of my books edit

Please read this... if you can understand what it says...

https://beginners.re/#uni

https://smt.st/#uni Yurichev (talk) 03:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please see WP:COI, WP:EL, and stop writing about yourself on Wikipedia or adding links to your sites. Thanks! MrOllie (talk) 03:34, 21 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Goulash edit

Please explain what you considered a spam citation and why. Also, how did I break formatting? LesMezei (talk) 19:52, 22 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

You broke the article's section headings, and you pasted in a link to 'theasguard.com', which appears to be a small insurance company. MrOllie (talk) 21:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sorry about the asguard link. I changed it to something else but the system seems to default and revert back to that when I submit the changes. I didn't realize it was reverting. It's not intentional. I'm not sure if it's a bug in the editor or something I'm not doing right. I just put in a new citation LesMezei (talk) 13:38, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia doesn't really use dictionaries as cites much, either. And you definitely should not be filling in your own name as the author of the dictionary. MrOllie (talk) 13:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
The system said I needed a citation after claiming that Goulash had a secondary meaning in English. How else can that be cited accept via a dictionary? Sorry about my name as author. I thought it was to name the author of the citation. Can that be left blank. I'm still learning the system.
Theasguard link may be coming from the autofill function in my RoboForm password manager (it's my business email and website). I remove it when I see it but something in the editor seems to be re-triggering the autofill when I change screens or check a help link. I'll have to double check all the fields before I submit anything. LesMezei (talk) 14:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Guidelines related to Talk pages edit

Hi Mr Ollie. At WP:TPO there is the following advice regarding acceptable practices on Talk pages: The basic rule, with exceptions outlined below, is to not edit or delete others' posts without their permission.

In this edit by you, you deleted a post on the page Talk:Centrifugal force. It is likely you were in breach of the “basic rule” described above.

Your edit summary said nothing more than “Restored revision 1195063052 by Cewbot”. If you believe you had a legitimate reason for deleting the post, you did not disclose it in your edit summary, at Talk:Centrifugal force, or on a Talk page accessible from the IP from which the post was made.

If you believe WP:TPO is missing something important that would allow Users to delete other User’s posts from Talk pages, please make a submission to the relevant project page proposing that your ideas should be incorporated. Until your submission is accepted by the Wikipedia community, please respect Wikipedia’s guideline that says “do not delete other’s posts without their permission.” Dolphin (t) 14:03, 26 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Talk page postings are regularly deleted across Wikipedia when they are violations of WP:NOTFORUM - this is covered by the exceptions outlined below mentioned in the quote you have pasted here. That was an unsigned posting where someone was apparently pasting in a homework question. I don't believe there was anything wrong with deleting such a thing, with or without a specific edit summary. MrOllie (talk) 14:12, 26 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
It would help if you could mention NOTFORUM when removing posts like that. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:53, 26 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Help with editing an article edit

Hello MrOllie,

I noticed you focus primarily on editing articles. Please I would appreciate it, if you could help me look over one of my recent articles on an African film Draft:Obara'M.

Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks Aivrie (talk) 03:31, 27 April 2024 (UTC)Reply