User talk:2600:1700:F91:B320:400F:8BEC:3227:6432

November 2022
Hello, I'm Aaron Liu. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Battle of Ain Jalut, 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. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:05, 17 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I know this message probably came from a bot, as it looks like an automated form letter, but the sentence I was editing doesn't have a citation either, or did you/the bot not notice? It also makes no sense narratively to mention that Hulagu left "in accordance with Mongol customs" without explaining why. In addition, I'm not well-versed on the editing code of conduct or whatever, but I feel like I read something in there about not over-linking/over-citing/etc, especially when things that are for a lack of a better phrase "common knowledge" like the fact that the capital of Egypt is Cairo, the fact that Hulau and Möngke were brothers, or the fact that any source that cites that Hulagu left the battle would undoubtedly explain why. Therefore, due to these concerns/preconceived notions, stylistic and otherwise, I made the edit like I made it and I didn't figure there would be a problem. It could just be that the problem is I wasn't logged into my account because Wikipedia logs me out constantly even though I tell it not to, and y'all don't trust randoms, which is fine, but in my opinion this is a ridiculous redaction and I doubt you'll see my because it was done by a bot that is only programmed to remove edits without citations without checking why or noticing that there weren't even citations pre-edit.
 * tl;dr you made a mistake and I'm replying to it here because otherwise I would just have to cite your message on your talk page anyway, and that doesn't really make sense to me either. Come to think of it, neither does harrassing people who clean up this website for free when you get nothing out of it, especially when unless my IP is dynamic it can probably be seen that I've made hundreds of helpful edits via it and am therefore not a threat to Wikipedia, but I digress. This is a pointless response to a pointless reaction but it's annoyed me and hopefully I can get some clarity beyond "just fix the whole article plz kthx" because it seems like with the tpye of edits I like to do (clarity, grammar, links, etc) I can't win without spending an inordinate amount of time I don't have using experience and knowhow I do not possess.
 * greaaaaaaaaat thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks mkay Bottlesofsmoke (talk) 15:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)