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Sorry it took so long to get back to this one I just wanted to get some other edits in before going back to it because it was tedious for me but I didn’t forget! NuttMerg (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

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I noticed that you're new here, and wanted to give you a couple of pointers. You made two small errors in Wiki markup which I personally recall having made myself, so here's an explanation:

Italics are made by putting 2 pairs of single quotes around the text: ''Homo sapiens'' will render as Homo sapiens.
In the olden days of Wikipedia, entering a plural in the search box(or as a wikilink in Wikipedia pages), for example, (Old World monkeys) would not bring up the article Old World monkey, but today the vast majority (not all, though) of articles with singular titles can be called up if you enter the plural Old World monkeys. When in doubt, type in [[Old World monkey]]s and the s will be blue like the rest of the wikilink: Old World monkeys.

I will take a look at your edits and see if there is anything else to help out with.--Quisqualis (talk) 16:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

PS: when you want Wiki markup not to function, like in my examples above, you can put <nowiki></nowiki> around the text, and The End (Doors song) will render as [[The End (Doors song)]].
(You can examine this post's markup in edit mode.)--Quisqualis (talk) 16:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Asclepias syriaca edit

Hi NuttMerg. Did you mean to delete this part?

[[Deforestation]] due to European settlement may have expanded the range and density of common milkweed. This plant can become invasive; it is naturalized in several areas outside of its native range, including [[Oregon]] and parts of [[Europe]]. However, in the last three decades{{when|date=August 2017}} mostly in the United States, milkweed populations have diminished dramatically due to factors such as increased habitat loss due to development, roadside median mowing, and herbicide use.{{cn|date=October 2019}} Subsequently, this has played a significant part in the monarch butterfly's 90% population decline since the 1990 peak of 1B migrators as the milkweed can no longer survive among the corn and soybean rows.{{cn|date=May 2020}}

Invasive Spices (talk) 18:24, 3 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

I meant to remove the part on monarch butterflies since I cited a source that states this same fact but did not mean to delete the portion regarding milk weed invasiveness. I can add this back when I am able to next- I am kind of new with this so please let me know if there are any tricks or proper methods for revising/reversing edits that you recommend (I know in this case reversing the whole edit would cause more work but for future reference perhaps). Thank you NuttMerg (talk) 03:11, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • You're right that the easy way (revert everything) is not going to work here. The only way to do it in this case is the tedious way. However this isn't a very big reversion so it won't be that much work. (I saw someone do something much worse and more complicated and told them about it. Hopefully they fixed it correctly because I didn't actually go back and check everything in that case. It was the whole page.) Invasive Spices (talk) 17:07, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

citation needed edit

Hi NuttMerg! When adding "citation needed", please type {{citation needed}} instead of what you did at Beatrice Foods. For more information on how to use the template, see Template:Citation needed. Thanks, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 15:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the clarification- I thought I did it right based on what I read but will note moving forward (and try to fix previous edits like this). Thank you again!! NuttMerg (talk) 13:52, 20 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

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