User talk:Arobrien

Pyramid of Djoser
Hi, Arobrien. Your contributions to articles like Pyramid of Djoser are welcome, but please stop deleting the previous content of the article. Your original edit deleted a substantial amount of functioning bits of the article - things like links to other articles, a section containing references, links to other wikis, and so forth. You appear to have copied and pasted your entire contents over what was in the article; this causes more trouble than its worth. I restored the important parts you overwrote, but you are now continuing to delete what we call the "lede", the first few paragraphs of information in the article that are intended to give a summary of the article's contents. Please stop doing this. You can use the article's talk page to discuss your reasons if you believe anything in the article needs to be deleted; do not continue deleting information with no discussion and no edit summaries.

I have re-added the lede and removed your "conclusion" section, which is not appropriate for an encyclopedia, as encyclopedias do not have theses to be supported by conclusions - we only report what the sources say; we are prohibited from drawing conclusions. I have also removed your section titled "Imhoptep", as he is not the subject of the article and in fact has his own article. Any information you want to add about him belongs there.

Again, your contributions are welcome, they appear to be well-written and well-sourced, but you cannot delete valid information from the article to "make room" for what you are pasting in. keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 18:53, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Arobrien! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 21:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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