User talk:Aquarius2018

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Hello, Aquarius2018, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Use of sandbox
I see that you have a copy of an article in a sandbox. If your intention is to edit the article there and then copy the content back to the article, then I think you should be aware of some pitfalls in that approach. Firstly, if you make a lot of edits to your sandbox copy and then post it to the article in one edit, other editors will see one large edit, and if they see problems with part of it they may not be willing to put n the large amount of time and effort needed to check every detail of that large edit to separate the good from the bad, and so your whole edit may be reverted, instead of just small parts of it. Secondly, if while you are editing your sandbox version one or more other people edits the article, posting your new version to the article will remove all their edits. Not only will that lead to a loss of their work, but it may also lead to your editing being reverted. For both those reasons it is much better to make a number of small edits directly to the article. Each edit you should check by clicking the "preview" link below the editing area before saving it. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 22:36, 11 July 2018 (UTC)