User talk:MotorwayGuy

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Happy editing! Cheers, John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:02, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

But
With regret, I had to revert your edit to A1 road (Great Britain) because it added too much detail. Among the many things that WP:Wikipedia is not, it is not a gazetteer, it just aims to give the most essential facts. It doesn't aim to compete with SABRE.

You can get more advice at WikiProject Highways/United Kingdom. Again, welcome. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:02, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to reiterate the welcome and the advice. I have reverted other of your edits as inappropriate and unsourced. Wikipedia is not a collection of comments by the editors, it records what reliable sources say about the subject, and provides links to those sources. Do have a read through of the resources linked above so that your welcome enthusiasm translates into useful persistent content. Cheers! Captainllama (talk) 01:43, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, MotorwayGuy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. If you are interested, there is already a community of users who are roadfans or who edit articles about roads, just like you! Stop by any of these WikiProjects—WP:HWY (worldwide), WP:CRWP (Canada), WP:INR (India), WP:UKRD (United Kingdom), or WP:USRD (United States)—and contribute. If you live in the United States, there is an excellent new user's guide. There is a wealth of information and resources for creating a great article. If you have questions about any of these WikiProjects, you can ask on each project's talk page, or you can ask me! If you like communicating through IRC, feel free to ask questions at as well. Here, there are several editors who are willing to answer your questions. For more information, see WP:HWY/IRC. Again, welcome! Roads4117 (talk) 12:39, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Tips
Hi User:MotorwayGuy, how are you? I would like to give you some tips for editing Wikipedia (they are basically don't make all the mistakes I made when I joined in the summer) which are:
 * Reply to your talk page messages - if you don't then it gets you into a really bad place, and just creates a mess.
 * Don't copyvio - or in other words, don't copy other people's work. It just gets you to WP:ANI, a place where you do not want to be, and you could potentially get banned altogether from editing Wikipedia.
 * Attribution - when you redirect or merge pages, then you need to put an attribution message on your edit summary and on the articles talk page. An example of one would be found here, at A3036 road.
 * Don't vandalise Wikipedia - it sounds simple, but just don't. It is a waste of your time, and a waste of everybody else's time to clean up your mess.
 * Get involved at WP:HWY - get involved. I see that you like to edit motorways and cities etc. (just like me) so WP:HWY, could be the perfect place to get started.

I hope that this is useful for you, as we have loads of road articles to edit, but not enough editors to edit them. And if you want to then you can add a userpage, so editors like me get to know you better. However, if you are under 18 years old, then please don't add any personal information. Roads4117 (talk) 13:09, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Please include citations when you add material, as requested above. Your additions are made in good faith and are most likely accurate, but Wikipedia requires content to be referenced to a reliable source. Unfortunately I had to remove your addition to M67 motorway as it was not cited properly. Dave.Dunford (talk) 16:48, 3 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi MotorwayGuy, I just saw your edits that you did yesterday (2nd Jan). They were good faith edits, but next time add some reliable sources. This means that we publish only the analysis, views, and opinions of reliable authors, and not those of Wikipedians who have read and interpreted primary source material for themselves. Wikipedia requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations. If you are new to editing and instead just need a general overview of how sources work, please visit the referencing for beginners help page. But keep going - I completely agree with your views, especially on Switch Island, but just add some references, and you are more or less there. If you have any questions or queries,  then please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Thank you, Roads4117 (talk) 17:09, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello again MotorwayGuy, how are you? I have just seen some of your recent contributions - they look really good. The only thing I would say to improve on is to please reply back to messages on your talk page (obviously if you are under 18, then please don't give out any personal info - like name, address, phone number etc.). Roads4117 (talk) 17:29, 27 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, I have been really busy with other things and sometimes edit pages as a little free time thing. I am not great with keeping up with things but I will try to from now, I would like to ask, what roads do you think I should begin on and what kind of things should I edit? MotorwayGuy (talk) 12:38, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello @MotorwayGuy, how are you? Sorry for the (4-month) late reply, been really busy with education etc. One thing you could do is to make a userpage, and add stuff about you (but remember not to add any personal information ;) ). Feel free to look at people's userpages for ideas. Roadwise, there is a push from the people at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Highways, especially myself and @John Maynard Friedman, to reduce all UK road infoboxes to have 10 or less major junctions (you can also see User:Roads4117/Major junctions for more information). Other things are just adding content and citations to articles. If you any questions/queries etc, then please contact me on my talk page (User talk:Roads4117), or ask the guys at Teahouse. There is more information on what to do and what to include on the WikiProject Highways project page. Looking forward to seeing you editing in the near future :) Roads4117 (talk) 18:40, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Mentor
@MotorwayGuy Would it be beneficial for you to have a mentor to help you starting out at Wikipedia? They would help you learn the rules here, and practice citing sources etc. Just a suggestion, though. I would appreciate your answer, however.Roads4117 (talk) 07:11, 5 January 2023 (UTC)