User talk:Mosstacker

Welcome!
Hello, Mosstacker, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Flatonia, Texas. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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An extended welcome
Hi Mosstacker. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

As for your comment to me and your revert, I'm guessing you didn't see my edit summary not reliable sources still, or that the article has a history of poor sources that routinely are removed (famousbirthdays, imdb, ethnicelebs, etc). Also, it is good practice not to use uw-delete1 when there's an edit summary.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 03:56, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

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Deletion of information with no references.
What I have deleted has no references or sources which is a clear violation of Wikipedia's posting policies. Also stay off of my userpage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.68.175.26 (talk) 19:42, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I have reported you to AIV and you will be blocked for vandalism. Mosstacker (talk) 20:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Aaaaaannd BLOCKED :)

Editing
Hallo and thanks for your work in improving the encyclopedia. But when you edited John Fraser Noel there were a few problems.


 * 1) You said "citation needed": there aren't usually references in the lead sentence, though in this case the place of birth wasn't mentioned elsewhere so it was perhaps reasonable - though you could have found that his Cardiff birthplace was clearly mentioned in one of the existing references. That wasn't so much of a problem.
 * 2) You added "52 years ago": no, we never do that, because it will be out of date next year. Please also avoid even terms like "currently", or "last year". The encyclopedia is a long term project. There are some templates which calculate people's age in infoboxes from the date of birth, but they update automatically so that the figure is always up to date.
 * 3) You added "interestingly": no, that's a subjective statement. Wikipedia is written from a Neutral Point of View, so the editor's judgement as to what's "Interesting" has no place.

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey. Out of interest I had a look at one of your earliest edits, and reverted it. This edit actually changed the meaning of the sentence, to say that it was his father, not Francesco, who was born in such a place to such a family. And I've found a few other similar edits which I've reverted. Please take care! Thanks. Pam D  15:21, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

About "ago" - see MOS:REALTIME. Pam D  17:37, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Unconstructive edits
Well, hello Mosstacker. The subject above is one where you need to tread very carefully, and be sure of your facts before you make a fool of yourself. My recent Roger Bechirian edits which you reverted very unwisely are 100% correct, if you had bothered to check the related Wikipedia pages i.e. JONA Lewie and the Pretenders' discography. You clearly know little or nothing about rock music, of which I have extensive knowledge. If you seriously aspire to be a Wikipedia editor one day, ALWAYS check your facts first. . . just some friendly advice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.196.41.161 (talk) 23:45, 24 July 2018 (UTC) --UTRSBot (talk) 02:58, 25 July 2018 (UTC)