User talk:Cheltlibdems

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Cheltlibdems, good luck, and have fun. Pam  D  16:06, 7 July 2024 (UTC)  Pam  D  16:06, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Max Wilkinson, and I noticed that your username, " Cheltlibdems ", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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 * Hallo, As you seem to have ignored this post (you're still editing today with the same username), I've reported your username at Usernames for administrator attention. You need to abide by Wikipedia's rules about choice of username and make it clear that the name is not being used by a team of people. Each person has to take responsibility for their own edits, it's how the encyclopedia works. You can be "Jane at CheltLibDems" etc: just read the message above. Thanks. Pam  D  08:47, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Editing Max Wilkinson
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for expanding the basic article I created in the middle of the night as the results came through.

There are a few things to point out, as well as the problem with your user name shown above.


 * 1) Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia rather than a fanzine, refers to people by surname, not given name
 * 2) Please don't use "curly" or "slanted" quotes or apostrophes
 * 3) Everything must be referenced to Reliable independent published sources (most of your input is)
 * 4) Date format: for dates within references, all-numerical dates like "2024-07-04" are not used. In the "access-date", it's optional to use all-numerical, but the format established when the article was created should be followed. So this article uses "4 July 2024" format both in references and in access-dates
 * 5) Please always check your links: the refs to the 2017 and 2019 results weren't right, as they didn't lead to the specific pages only to a generic front page

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey, though you do need to be aware of those rules about Usernames, Conflict of interest and Paid editing.

I'm trying to help here, as a paid-up Lib Dem member (though not active in the latest election for fear of splitting the anti-Tory vote: my local Labour candidate was successfully elected, and our Lib Dem trailed in at 9.9%!), and a long-standing Wikipedia editor (I was editing Greg Mulholland's article in 2007, and was part of the team that got him elected). Congratulations on getting your man elected, and welcome to Wikipedia. Pam D  17:03, 7 July 2024 (UTC)


 * And please note that you must not add stuff that you "know", like "the newspaper he delivered as a paperboy in his teens". If he has said that in some interview published in the local press, or on a web page somewhere, then fine, re-add it with the reference. But it isn't in the LinkedIn source, so it now isn't in the Wikipedia article, even if he has frequently said it to you in the constituency office. (And please take care with references: his education and his experience are on different pages in LinkedIn, so they need to be two separate references). Thanks. Pam  D  09:14, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024
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Thank you. Euryalus (talk) 12:25, 8 July 2024 (UTC)