User talk:Waitalie Nat

Ken Layne
Hi Waitalie, I'm not sure if you know that I pinged you about two weeks back about the article Ken Layne. It's an infrequently edited entry, but I have written a new version of it at Mr. Layne's behest, and since you are one of the few editors to make any content-based edits to it, I'd tried to ping you upon my first request. On account of my COI, I figure it's better I not edit the article directly. But the current article has many problems, especially regarding its sourcing, and I think the draft I've prepared would be an improvement. Would you be willing to review my proposed update? Best, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 04:37, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Following up just to say, this has now been addressed. Best, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 15:16, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

When fixing references...
... like you did here and here, please have a careful look at what happened before. In both cases you left an article in very bad shape after a vandalising edit. - DVdm (talk) 20:02, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * And here. - DVdm (talk) 20:05, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * And here. - DVdm (talk) 20:06, 27 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Whoops, sorry about that!
 * For future reference, you really only had to send one message. I'd made all of those edits before you sent your first message, so the second and third message really came across like you wanted me to feel horrible, even though I'm sure you didn't intend them that way.
 * It looks like you have an awesome track record on here, and I really respect that. Please remember that not everyone has the experience with editing Wikipedia that you do, though.
 * Have a good day. :) Waitalie Nat (talk) 20:23, 27 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Please indent your talk page messages as outlined in wp:THREAD and wp:INDENT — See Help:Using talk pages. I hope you don't mind my edits to your message. Thanks.
 * Ah sorry, I did not want to make you feel horrible. My messages just followed the order in which I reviewed your edits.
 * Could you please take some time to review your other edits of the recent past, and verify whether you could perhaps have made similar mistakes?
 * By the way, your 5 most recent edits are reference corrections, so I wonder how you found these errors? Are you using some kind of script? I'd be interested to know. Thanks. - DVdm (talk) 20:33, 27 July 2018 (UTC)


 * No problem! Thanks for fixing my indentation.
 * Those are the only reference fixes that I recall making. I might have fixed some broken references while I was fixing something else about a page, but I'm not sure. I found the red tide page because I was looking for it (because of the current red tide in Florida), and the red tide page was very difficult to read since half the text was large, bold, and red due to the error. Then, out of curiosity, I searched "Cite error: A tag is missing the closing < /ref >." (minus the spaces)
 * I also went on the category for pages with incorrect ref formatting and the category for pages with reference errors. Waitalie Nat (talk) 21:01, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, that makes sense. Thanks. Just remember, when fixing technical issues to articles, to always check the immediately preceding edits. When something is wrong in some article, the cause can usually be found there. Cheers, and happy Wikipedizing . - DVdm (talk) 21:08, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Will do! Waitalie Nat (talk) 21:12, 27 July 2018 (UTC)