User talk:Jennjesshoward

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Hello, Jennjesshoward, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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October 2020
Hi Jennjesshoward! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Battle of Khaybar‎ that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 17:12, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... Hello, I am new here and would appreciate the help! If I would like to make a major change to the page how do I go about talking to the other editors on that page? If I give an explanation then can I just go ahead and post it or do I post it and write my explanation in the summary? I was also wondering if I need permission for making major edits with the other members? Thank you! Jennjesshoward (talk) 00:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC) Jennjesshoward (talk) 00:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * There are a couple of different ways you could go about this. One is to simply make your big change and see if anyone resists. This approach is called "Bold, revert, discuss" and there's nothing wrong with trying it this way.
 * Another is to use the talk page. Open a new section and describe the changes you propose making to see if anyone objects or has suggestions. For active pages, this usually works out well, but for less active pages you may never get a response to your proposal on the talk page and you'll be stuck doing much the same thing as BRD.
 * Yet another approach is to copy the current page to a draft page in your user space (make sure you follow the rules at COPYWITHIN), then make your proposed changes to that draft page and then ask at the talk page for other editors to weight in on whether or not to make the changes.
 * There are other places where you can look for reactions; most articles are tagged (on their talk pages) with banners for WikiProjects that are supposedly interested in the page. Those WikiProjects have talk pages and you should be able to tell from those talk pages if the project has active editors involved. Opening a new section on the WikiProject talk page may sometimes work better than just the talk page of the article.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:01, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Recent edit reversion
In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. S Philbrick (Talk)  01:23, 11 December 2020 (UTC)