User talk:SabrinaReinehr

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

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On pitcher plants
Sabrina: I am a Wikipedia editor. I recently read your article on feeding mechanisms of pitcher plants. Another editor proposed that your article be merged into the article on pitcher plants, and I agreed and performed the merge, effectively deleting your article. I am leaving you this message to let you know this, and to let you understand: Wikipedia is averse to the creation of what we call "content forks": a content fork is an article that essentially reproduces the same information of another article. Content forks result in the decentralization of information, and in that sense are counterproductive: people visiting the site and wanting to learn about how pitcher plants feed need to be able to find that information quickly and easily, and your article on "feeding mechanisms" does not help them do that. In light of this, I have created a redirect from your article to the main one. Please do not take offense at this-- I have not done it to offend you, and ask that you not take it personally. If you are going to edit Wikipedia, this sort of thing will happen often! I have done it to make the encyclopedia more efficient and better for our lay users. I hope you will understand. Your effort is appreciated, but in this case, was not well directed. Thanks! A loose noose (talk) 06:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)