User talk:Mackieg4

Welcome!
Hello, Mackieg4, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Hi. I reverted your strike-throughs of text in the An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump article. If you want to remove content from an article, you should simply delete it instead of striking it through. In this particular case though, since the article is a Featured Article, I recommend you raise the matter of tangents on the article's talk page first. While most articles are fair game to edit, you should approach Featured Articles a bit more carefully. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:48, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion for an article which really needs your help
Hello ,

So many students just add stuff that it is good to see you enjoy deleting too. I think an article which could really use your brains and enthusiasm is Peak oil. As you can see has already improved the lead of the article but has commented that the body of the article really needs update. If you get bored with pruning and summarizing the overly wordy historical detail there I am sure you could very easily find plenty of good sources of new info to add.

As you know this is a hot topic nowadays. And as hundreds of people view the article every day your work could affect the real world. Even now some aide could be trying to write an A4 brief for a minister on the way to COP26 and be cursing the article for being so useless as a starting point.

Also I see that Predicting the timing of peak oil needs merging in (I can do that for you if you don't enjoy technical fiddling around) and all the duplicate info blasted to smithereens.

Good luck with your course. Chidgk1 (talk) 16:24, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Please fix references in Urban runoff
Hi! I saw that you added some content to Urban runoff. However, instead of using the freetext references, please add them using the footnotes built into wikipedia. To do this, see this guide on how to add references with Visual Editor. Sadads (talk) 00:29, 16 December 2021 (UTC)