User talk:Missie Wolfe

Your edits on Trinidad and Tobago
Hi! Just wanted to pop over and quickly discuss your edits on Trinidad and Tobago. I appreciate that you're gently "testing the waters" of editing, and making small edits is a great way to learn - so I'm hoping that you're also open for a little feedback!

Here on Wikipedia, we like to make wikilinks - that is, a link to another related article. According to the Manual of Style for Wikipedia, a wikilink to a specific article should only exist on the first iteration, and not repeated. In the article Trinidad and Tobago, the first incidence of United Kingdom appears in the "infobox" at the top right of the article. You can see there that the words United Kingdom are already linked - that means that it should not be linked again under Independence.

Another thing you should watch for are edit summaries - you can see them when you view the Page History. For example, you made that edit once, and I reverted it with the edit summary:


 * (del/undel) 19:51, May 27, 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-4)‎ . . Trinidad and Tobago ‎ (Reverted 1 pending edit by Missie Wolfe to revision 609594513 by Mr. Stradivarius: Already wikilinked more than once in the article, see WP:OVERLINK)

You can see that edit summary was descriptive, and provided you with the exact policy-based reason for why ("see WP:OVERLINK"). Edit summaries are helpful ways to explain what was changed and why.

I see that you have gone back and re-added that Wikilink ... I didn't want to remove it again myself (see edit-warring), so I thought I'd explain why it was changed back so that you could fix it yourself! the panda ₯’ 08:28, 28 May 2014 (UTC)