User talk:Vegan5589

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place  before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! VanTucky 03:24, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
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Goldfish
Please observe that Wikipedia is not a how-to guide, and no advice (especially uncited by reliable published sources) should be given on keeping goldfish. That is what Wikibooks are for. Thank you VanTucky 03:24, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Abortion
I wanted to comment that I reverted two additional new sections that you added to Abortion. I want to make it clear that I believe your edits were in good faith, and I honestly appreciate you taking the time to try and improve wikipedia. However, the content you added already exists further down in the article. We discusses abortion by gestation age (and have a chart), and we even cite the same Jones/Darroch/Henshaw study on contraception. Just check out the sections a little bit further down in the article. Hope this explains why your edits were removed, and that it isn't anything personal. Another tip, when citing primary sources like journal articles, it is important to contextualize the findings to avoid making claims not found in the study (for example, if the study is just in the US, then the figures may not apply to China. If the study only had 600 participants, we shouldn't try to claim that the findings apply universally, etc). We do this by adding qualifiers like "One 1997 study of 600 respondents from the western United States found..." You can see how we present the Jones/Darroch/Henshaw study further down in the article for a real life example of what I'm talking about. Hope this helps, and if you have any questions of concerns you can contact me. Feel free to respond to the topic regarding your edits at the bottom of Talk:Abortion as well. Thanks, and good luck!-Andrew c [talk] 13:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)