User talk:Alex.brinkmanyoung

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Happy editing! Woodroar (talk) 16:38, 6 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you - I will look through these - I understand now why I can't just cut and paste but it does seem like all my additions to Anne Hunter's page were deleted by Magnolia677 and all my additions have been called 'error-filled' which I don't understand as I tried very hard to be careful in making sure I was finding any information on reliable citations and making these entries MORE not less accurate by including more citations to them. I'm still learning but feel actually quite discouraged now and like I wasted my whole morning on this and don't really want to try again if everything I work on will be deleted. I have looked through and Magnolia677 has deleted ALL my changes including ones I made at the suggestion of Wikipedia in terms of small changes to grammar and clarity of writing. Alex.brinkmanyoung (talk) 18:04, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Alex.brinkmanyoung! I'm sorry that your first experience on Wikipedia has been discouraging, but I hope that you'll enjoy editing after reading through the links in that Welcome message. I'll address a few of your questions or comments:
 * Your work hasn't actually been deleted, but "reverted". That's like undoing it, but almost every edit on Wikipedia is saved in the article's history.
 * As you're now aware, we take copyright violations very seriously. In most cases, the easiest and arguably best thing to do when spotting policy violations is to revert the edit. Now there's no way to selectively revert an edit, so because your grammar changes were saved in the same edit with your copied material, it was all reverted at once.
 * You also added a large number of links to eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, which is against our guidelines on external links. It looked an awful lot like spam, though I'm assuming that you meant well. Our WikiProject Poetry—a group of editors who standardize our articles on poetry and poets—asks that public domain poems get added to Wikisource. That way we can link to Wikisource instead of some random website.
 * It looks like Magnolia677 also took issue with the poem names, which were all in caps. We have a Manual of Style that standardizes how we depict names of works, among other things.
 * I would also be careful in edits like this and this not to add extra spaces. It tends to clutter article changes and can make it difficult to see what other changes were made.
 * That's probably enough for now. If you have any questions at all, please let me know. Cheers! Woodroar (talk) 20:06, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Please slow down
You have been making some huge, error-filled edits which other editors are deleting. I urge you to take a moment and read some of the links in the welcome message above so you may familiarize yourself with how to edit Wikipedia. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:29, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You also can't cut-and-paste stuff from a website and add it word-for-word to Wikipedia. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:37, 6 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Magnolia677

Thank you I will not cut and paste - I am confused though about why you deleted all my additions to Anne Hunter's page and all my other additions that I made at the suggestion of Wikipedia in terms of improving certain entries that were suggested to me by Wikipedia. They were cited and not 'error-filled' - some were simply sub-links I added to other Wikipedia pages to improve the entry. In terms of the Anne Hunter page, I cited a biography of her from 2009 that I think should be included in the works cited/resources. Just trying to help out Wikipedia and support it. Will read through the welcome materials. Alex.brinkmanyoung (talk) 17:59, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Read my edit summary when I deleted it. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:31, 6 June 2020 (UTC)