User talk:Cpacio

 Hello, Cpacio, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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Cpacio, good luck, and have fun. Pam  D  22:21, 3 October 2017 (UTC)  Pam  D  22:21, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Careless editing
''This is a version of the message I left yesterday for your fellow student. I hope there aren't too many more of you coming along to leave messy edits for other editors to tolerate or tidy up. Please take more care.''

Hallo and welcome to Wikipedia. Please take more care with your editing. When you added a whole lot of names to List of women psychologists in these edits you messed up the formatting of the table in several ways - the background colour of left column changed and the references weren't centred. Tables are complicated. Rather than add a whole lot of entries all at once, the right thing to do would have been to add one woman, very carefully, and use "Preview" to see if the table still looked right. It didn't, so check the code for the adjacent entries and make sure that you're using identical code. Still not right? Then "Cancel" your edit and ask for help on the article talk page, your own talk page or somewhere else, rather than leave a messed-up table in a serious international encyclopedia. If you make an edit and save it, and then see that it's gone wrong, you can always revert yourself by clicking on "undo".

It's more important to edit accurately than to add lots of information all at once. Another approach would have been to copy the table into your own "sandbox" and experiment there with adding new lines to it, checking that the formatting was working right, and then either complete your edits and copy the revised table, or just use what you've learned and edit the "mainspace" version carefully using the code which works.

I don't know much about tables but I'll see what I can do to fix the formatting of this one by looking very carefully at the other entries and copying their code.

I see you're a student working on Wikipedia for a class. Other editors shouldn't have to spend time tidying up after students: this is a real, international, collaborative encyclopedia, not a student laboratory or playground. Please treat other editors with respect by working very carefully when you edit the encyclopedia. Thanks, and Happy Editing. Pam D  22:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your explanation ! I'll make sure that the instructor passes this information along! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:37, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello Pam. I appreciate you trying to help me with the format on the article. However, you should know that the other student and I who were working on this article tried our best to fix the formatting ourselves. It's not that we're "careless". We actually had difficulty in changing the codes so that the formatting would look the same throughout the table. As you should know, it is our first time editing an article so we're fairly new to everything as we're still learning how to edit. Also, I hope you are least grateful for how much we contributed towards your article and expanding the list. Remember, Wikipedia is a place where ANYONE can edit. Cpacio (talk) 01:10, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Cpacio, 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.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)