User talk:DashDog01/Archive1 1

My apology to you
Hello. It looks like I made a very big error earlier today in accusing you of using copyrighted text. That mistake came to light just as I was leaving Wikipedia for the evening, so my very hasty replies and typos at the Teahouse are not adequate at this time, and right now I can't quite work out what happened to lead me to the wrong conclusion. However, I will return and explain in more detail later tonight. Regards for now, Nick Moyes (talk) 16:48, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Dear . I am sorry for the delay in responding in full to you (due to family circumstances at home). I have now looked into why I jumped to the conclusion that you had been responsible for adding copyrighted text to the article on Swordigo. I accused you – quite wrongly - of adding text after a tool we use to detect so-called ‘copyvios’ identified a YouTube description as the source, when almost certainly the reverse was the case. However, thanks to another editor here, it became clear I had not checked the page edits sufficiently thoroughly to appreciate you had simply added to pre-existing content in the article. It was very careless of me, and I now see that text had been there from the page’s creation in 2016, and that you had simply added enhancements of your own. Obviously, my insistence that you had done wrong by these edits - and that I was correct and you were not - was both immensely frustrating and very upsetting for you – and I respect you for continuing to challenge me. I think you are quite right to say that you are the one who should be disappointed in me and my reply on that occasion. I can fully understand why you might have lost faith with us – well me - here at the Teahouse when our sole intention always is to be as supportive and as helpful as we can to new editors like you. I hope you feel my previous attempts to support and answer all your detailed questions here were done in that spirit, and I am glad you have finally started editing some real articles, though I didn't get you off to a good start there, did I? For this mistake I can only apologise to you and hope that it doesn’t put you off contributing to Wikipedia articles in the future.
 * As you have probably now seen, I have reinstated the article text, corrected a few of the genuine issues I commented on when you asked for a review of your first edits, and struck out those elements of my response which I now fully accept were not correct. This might seem an odd way of doing things – why not just delete the text, you may wonder? That’s not what we do here in talk pages when we recognise we have said things that we later feel are not correct. Thus, my struck edits and this apology to you for impugning your good faith edits stand for anyone to scrutinise.
 * I have always regarded the whole Wikipedia adventure as a huge and amazing learning experience, and in this case I hope I have learnt not to jump too quickly to conclusions about a user’s editing, and perhaps to be a little more careful in future. As I said in my original post, I am always willing to apologise for any mistakes I might make, and in this case you do deserve that full apology from me. I am posting this both to your question at the Teahouse, and to your talk page. Once again, sorry. Regards from the UK. Nick Moyes (talk) 21:30, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Another example entirely: I had nominated an article for a "Did You Know." The reviewer did a copyvio check and alerted/warned me that text matched website content elsewhere. With a bit of sleuthing I was able to prove that the other site had plagarized (sic) what I was in an article I has worked on, rather than the other way around. Stuff happens. David notMD (talk) 22:33, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

April 2018
Hello, I'm Theroadislong. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Beach Buggy Blitz, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 07:27, 13 April 2018 (UTC)