User talk:Lsolesbee

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Hello, Lsolesbee, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Hello, Lsolesbee, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you are enjoying editing and want to continue. Some useful pages to visit are:
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If you need any help, check out Questions, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. We're so glad you're here! 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 03:52, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016
Greetings. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been or will be reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. SanAnMan (talk) 15:54, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Re: deleting my edits
I'm going to be kind with this, since you're a new editor. Quite frankly, the changes you made to Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge were poorly written, badly formatted, and overall not in any type of encyclopedic format. You took an article that had complete sentences, thorough thoughts, and formatting that was consistent through all episodes, and made changes which failed in all of these aspects. Let's start by looking at one of your event descriptions: "The Crate --[S3] Run to monster 600 lb. crate. Flip crate end over end to the end of course. Climb on crate and ring bell.", vs. the current description: "The Crate — a dirt course has a crate (600 pounds for men, 400 pounds for women) which must be flipped end over end until it reaches a bell (15 feet off the ground for men, 12 feet off the ground for women). The contestant must then climb the crate and ring the bell." Now ask yourself, which of these looks more professional, more thorough, and more along the lines of an encyclopedia? And then there's the formatting changes -- you used bold in areas where bold wasn't used before, you changed the look of the event brackets versus the existing format method, basically you took the look that was being used in the past and decided to go your own route. I highly encourage you to look over the links here on your talk page and learn about how to properly write encyclopedia articles before going wild and editing pages. In addition, you should really learn how to use your sandbox to practice making changes, as your constant edits one right after another could possibly be considered in violation of the three-revert rule. Again, your contributions are welcome, but you need to learn how to write, how to format, and how to edit first. - SanAnMan (talk) 04:19, 15 February 2016 (UTC)