Dperel95

April 2016

Hello, I'm DMacks. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 22:34, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the world of editing Wikipedia

Hello,

I'm Thparkth (real name Andrew). I'm another Wikipedia editor. I want to welcome you to the project. I hope you'll find it a satisfying and rewarding thing to work on.

One of the things that happens when you start editing here and looking at talk pages and other discussions is that you start to see an alphabet-soup of acronyms and abbreviations. Usually these are used to refer in shorthand to the (many) various Wikipedia policies and guidelines for editing.

I'm going to throw two of them your way right now, based on what I noticed about a few of your edits :) The first is WP:NPOV - the policy on writing with a neutral point of view. We can't really say (using Wikipedia's voice) that one or another city is the most exciting in America, or that one or another university is the best.

Another thing you might like to read is WP:WEASEL which is about avoiding "weasel words." An example of weasel-wording would be for me to say, "Some say that Wikipedia editor Thparkth can speak seventeen languages and lift a pickup truck with a single index finger", or "Wikipedia editor Thparkth is widely considered to have written all of the good articles basically all by himself". But who is saying it? Who is considering it? If someone is actually expressing those opinions we should be able to name them. If we can't verify that someone is actually saying something, we obviously shouldn't claim that they are.

Anyway I hope you can see that both of those things apply directly to a few of your edits. Please don't be discouraged by this note - it's natural that it takes a while to get up to speed on things here (I'm still learning after twelve years). Please write me a note here or on my talk page if you like.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 22:52, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Brown University. Your edits continue to appear to constitute vandalism and have been automatically reverted.

• If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
• ClueBot NG makes very few mistakes, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been considered as unconstructive, please read about it, report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
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• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Brown University was changed by Dperel95 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.870985 on 2016-04-20T18:10:41+00:00 .

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 18:10, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Plip!

Bad robot! That was a perfectly reasonable edit. Thparkth (talk) 18:17, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

So, do I need to reinsert it? How do I bring my edit back?

If you undo ClueBot's edit precisely, it won't change it back. Thparkth (talk) 18:34, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jon Satron

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A tag has been placed on Jon Satron requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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