User talk:Claudialopra

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Hello, Claudialopra, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Minor edits
Thank you for your edit to Schengen Area, it is a good one.

You will probably notice that I changed it a bit, for a couple of reasons:
 * 1) Wikipedia avoids embedded external links, so I used tags instead. I also used a fancy technique to cite the source (see WP:Citing sources) but you don't have to do that - just adding ref tags to your version would have done. (like
 * 2) We try to use sources that don't have a conflict of interest. Of course a visa agency is likely to know a lot about a topic but they have a financial interest and would gain from readers hyperlinking from wikipedia, so we try to use sources that are as neutral as possible. Newspapers are the best we can get, even though some of the same concerns apply.

Finally and most importantly, you tagged your edit as 'minor'. That suggests that you have misunderstood the system: although your edit was only two sentences, they actually marked an important development. M is used for trivial changes like spelling corrections, slight changes in word order that don't affect the meaning.

But the main thing is that you had a go and it was a good one. Wikipedia works by people improving the wording of original contributions: that's easy, originality is hard, so please continue! Again, welcome. --Red King (talk) 15:39, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

November 2019
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 14:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Claudialopra, as I said in the section above, Wikipedia is very wary of sourcing information from sites that have a financial interest. Even though a link from Wikipedia has no benefit in search rankings, readers might follow the citation and go on to buy, so such links get deleted very quickly. You have made two edits and both have cited the same visa agency. It was easy to find a neutral source first time: if you really want to contribute to Wikipedia, please try to find a better source for that information - where did the agency get it? --Red King (talk) 15:36, 25 November 2019 (UTC)