User talk:Chang Tara

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Chang Tara! Thank you for your contributions. I am Nick Moyes and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Nick Moyes (talk) 23:21, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Myzus persicae
Hi Tara. Thanks for attempting to improve the article about Myzus persicae. It's great to see extra content being added, though unfortunately you've introduced quite a few errors of layout and minor grammatical errors, and a few statements that are not properly referenced. I don't want to put you off contributing, so rather than revert you're good work, I'll quickly try and clean up the article. I will shorten the lead paragraph quite a bit so as to raise up the 'Contents' box. I'll do this by adding a new section heading which will contain all the excess text. This will inevitably leave those extra sentences in a new section which might not be appropriate for it. Perhaps you can then work through at put that in its proper place?

It can be quite a challenge to jump straight in and make improvements to Wikipedia - and it can take a while to get the hang of how everything is done - so 'well done' for giving it a go. If you ever need any help or feedback, we have a special place called The Teahouse where you can ask questions and get help from other experienced editors at any time day or night. All the best from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:29, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Please don't edit the page until the In use template has been removed in half an hour or so. Because you've tried to save edits whilst I was working on it, your edits have been overwritten, but you can still view them in the 'View History' Tab and copy them over. I might try and do that myself in a bit so as to help you. Nick Moyes (talk)
 * Right - I've now finished tidying things up. How does it look to you? What I'd encourage you to focus on is how you add proper references to support factual statements. You'll see I've adding little notes to highlight things needing your attention. For example, how can winter temperatures affect the life cycle of a species which goes through that life cycle in just 10-12 days? That needs both clarifying and supporting with a source.
 * When I started out her, I found adding references was one of the hardest things to do. I had no-one to guide me at all. But we have a lovely little drop down 'Cite' template as part of our editing tool. I've imporved just one reference as an example for you. See ref 10 (Manoussopoulos, I.) which is properly formatted, but took little work as I simply pasted in the journal url and got Wikipedia to look up and fill in the rest. I recently wrote User:Nick Moyes/Easier Referencing for Beginners to explain how this is done as I found the formal guidance we always point beginners to is not very easy to understand. But if you want that, it's at WP:REFBEGIN. Over to you to tidy things up from here! Best wishes, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:31, 27 November 2019 (UTC)