User talk:TechWriterBum

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Hello, TechWriterBum, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! TJRC (talk) 23:36, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

January 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:John Roberts, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 23:40, 20 January 2020 (UTC) TJRC, I'm a beginner and still learning. However, I believe the only section I edited was Heritage (Welsh). I created that section. TechWriterBum (talk) 00:37, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:John Roberts, you may be blocked from editing. The Mirror Cracked (talk) 04:48, 21 January 2020 (UTC) The Mirror Cracked, Please explain. Teach me. Be specific. What did I change that's getting everyone upset? Am I not supposed to use the Talk page at all? As far as I know, I'm not editing anyone else's content. Please teach me with specific information.
 * The change you made is this: . Every edit in Wikipedia is recorded and can be inspected by anyone. You changed the spelling of "minor" to "miner". While that is correcting a mistake, it is a mistake made by User:2601:681:8180:4C60:CCAE:16A6:B194:1E98 not by you. You should not change other user's comments on talk pages, even if they contain errors, since that alters what they want to say. Reply with your own comments but don't change other people's comments. The Mirror Cracked (talk) 06:34, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

To The Mirror Cracked,


 * I think I understand the confusion now. I created the original content before creating this account. The content edited was my own. Since I created the original topic anonymously, it must have appeared to you that I was editing someone else's content. I felt the topic was relevant because the WIKI article stated that Roberts came from Welsh ancestry. Perhaps it's not relevant to others (??should I delete the topic??). However, I was only editing my own content. Editing with WIKI is new to me. Looks like I got off to a bad start. The article was written quickly, and I'm sure I could improve and clarify the context, but I'm now afraid to touch my own article. TechWriterBum (talk) 06:57, 21 January 2020 (UTC)


 * TechWriterBum, if that IP comment is actually your own, it is okay to revise it (at least before it gets any replies; it's generally a bad idea to change a comment, even your own, after it has been replied to, because then the replies are replying to something different then what is there). However, if you are going to do that: 1) delete the IP-address signature, and add your own by including four tilda characters ( ~ ) to make clear that it is your comment, not a different editor; and 2) in your edit summary, include something like "editing my own comment, placed before I had a Wikipedia account", so it doesn't look like your edit is to someone else's comment.
 * Welcome again. You'll get the hang of it; you just tripped on your first start, you'll be fine. TJRC (talk) 16:21, 21 January 2020 (UTC)