User talk:Sallyhux

Hi Sallyhux!
Welcome to Wikipedia!

About your edits to Birmingham Cathedral. The people who have written the article, are, I suppose, likely to be Birmingham people. I am aware that Birmingham has two cathedral's, St Philip's and St Chad's and there are articles on both. St Philip's hasn't been a cathedral all that long, really. It wasn't built as a cathedral. So it would possibly be better if we just allow it to be called St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. Unless you can give the people who wrote the page a really good reason for not doing it that way.

The reason that I noticed you had made those changes was that when you did it, you changed absolutely everything that used the term St Philip's.  In doing so,  You stuffed up all the pictures, because the file names of the pictures called the building "St Philip's" and once you change a file name to something different, it doesn't work any more. You must have also inadvertently changed the name in a reference, because I received a message on my watch page that you had damaged one of the references. I fixed it by simply reverting the changes.

Wikipedia is a cooperative effort.
 * If you find something that is definitely in error, then fix it.
 * If you find something that is completely consistent, but that you don't agree with, then leave a message on the talk page so it can be discussed. In this case, the name St Philip's was used consistently in the article, so it wasn't accidental; it was somebodies decision.
 * Don't make any change to something with the tag (File:) or (Image:). If you do, then the image will no longer show.
 * Read, Look and Think before making any change. Be fully aware of what it is that you are changing, in every case e.g. a picture file.
 * Look again i.e. use the preview option. This should have told you that there were no longer any pictures, where there had been pictures before you started.
 * Always leave a summary of the changes that you made.
 * Be cautious about rushing in to change major articles. Some articles are used by a thousand visitors a day, and are watched by numerous editors.  Any major change needs discussing on the talk page.
 * There are thousands of articles that need improving and every little helps..... generally!

Spelling: this can be a pothole for new editors. Be aware that both British and US spelling is used. Don't change any US article to British spelling. When you are dealing with an article that is of general interest e.g. World War II or Impressionism, you will find that the article is generally consistently in one type of spelling or another. The editors of some articles have taken the trouble to put a message on the talk page informing you what the spelling is. Its a good idea to check before you change "color" to "colour"  and "traveled" to "travelled". If the article is on a British subject, do not hesitate to fix it.

Do not hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. I'm on Wikipedia at some time almost daily.

If you have a look at the left hand column, you will find a tag that says "Help". You can find out a lot about editting by using that. If you want to finds heaps of articles that need work, the best way to discover them is simply to click on "Random article". Sign your name by typing four squiggles.

Amandajm (talk) 09:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)