User talk:Deemcppz

Regarding your 11 December 2009 edit of Prospect Park Zoo
Greetings, Deemcppz, and welcome to Wikipedia

Everyone has to start somewhere with Wikipedia, and I, for one, welcome those who have well-grounded knowledge of an article's subject. It is clear to me that you are very familiar with this particular subject, either as a staff person or a long-time volunteer, but some of the technical aspects of Wikimedia mark-up are not yet within your grasp because, though your intentions are noble and good, you left the article's mark-up in a damaged state at the conclusion of this particular edit. Part of the mark-up of a reference was removed, causing a warning to be rendered in the reference section in big, red letters, and part of the mark-up of one of the images was removed, causing a parsing error that caused it and the follow-on image to disappear. You see, when you replaced the name 'Lum' with 'Qim', you inadvertently removed the closing double-square brackets that flag the end of the image data.

Please continue to be so bold as to edit Wikipedia, especially this article, but take particular care until you become more familiar with mark-up (and even after!). Rated as a good article by a community of editors, this is one of the very best in the encyclopaedia, just falling short of a featured article rating. Much of the technical mark-up which has gone into the composition of this article can and will confuse neophytes. With these and the accompanying pictures, you did not choose one of the simpler articles on which to learn your craft, so you must be especially careful when introducing changes so as not to disturb the technical mark-up, scattered around like mines for the unwary.

In this case, the 'Show preview' button is your friend: use it before committing an edit to see if what you tried to do is turning out as you intend. And if you find that you don't know how to express what you intend, or you can't find your way back from a mistake, don't hesitate to leave a question or ask for help from an editor who is familiar with the article. You can learn of such editors from the History tab; choose one of the more frequent habitués. Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, it is a far better thing to collaborate while learning than leaving highly-rated articles somewhat broken. Also, spend some time with the mark up tutorials and set up testing sandboxes on your own user pages.

Good luck and take care. Gosgood (talk) 20:06, 18 December 2009 (UTC)