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January 2024

Hello, I'm Cerebral726. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Portal talk:Current events seemed less than neutral. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Cerebral726 (talk) 21:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia.User:CeasefireNow, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. As a heads up, Wikipedia is not a blog and userpages should not be used for materials not related to the encyclopedia. I highly encourage you to focus your efforts on editing, if that is your interest, over writing trivia on your user page. Fritzmann (message me) 03:44, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Can I make it something like this: User:Crunchydillpickle/List of unusual anniversaries? If so, how?? watermelon66 (talk) 17:03, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

The issue is not the formatting, but that it seems like your primary concern is not building an encyclopedia. Cruchydillpickle is an editor first and has more activity on articles than in their userspace (and even that is greater than usual). I am just advising against having all your edits be to your user page, as that is frowned upon. Fritzmann (message me) 17:17, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

So you're saying just dilute my editing focuses and it won't be so bad? watermelon66 (talk) 19:38, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Primarily focus on building an encyclopedia while editing Wikipedia and you should be good. Cerebral726 (talk) 19:45, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

👍 watermelon66 (talk) 19:45, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey, a quick note that WP:CUSTOMSIG/P suggests that A customised signature should make it easy to identify your username. and that It is common practice for a signature to resemble to some degree the username it represents. You may want to update your signature to indicate that your username is "CeasefireNow". As a note, a 2021 RFC on the topic was closed with consensus against signatures being required to correspond exactly to usernames and no consensus to require that signatures be easily recognizable to a new user as referring to the username they link to. As such, this is just a friendly suggestion! -- Cerebral726 (talk) 16:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

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Happy editing! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the warm welcome! I'll take your tips into account for sure. watermelon66 (talk) 18:45, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello

I noticed you were adding links to some health-related subjects last month (thank you!), and I want to invite you to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. You're welcome to join us if it's a subject area that interests you. It's a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style. Feel free to put the group's page on your watchlist, or stop by to say hello some time. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:20, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Will do! Thanks for the heads up!

watermelon66 (talk) 19:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)