User talk:Xanthein

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Hello, Xanthein, and welcome to Wikipedia!

An edit that you recently made to The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox.

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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 Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or type on your talk page here, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Dl2000 (talk) 18:05, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Follow-up
Just wanted to follow up on The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos article. Your interest in expanding the article is appreciated. However, your edit of that article needed to be restored because of various issues, such as the replacement of some templates and category markers which were in the article.articles, what with the coding, guidelines and policies involved.

You were concerned about the coding involved - one example is that you replaced basic links to other articles with a URL type link e.g. Geoff Atkinson should not be changed to Geoff Atkinson - even though the link is the same, the former double bracket coding is actually simpler and the normal practice.

Added tables are useful, but can be tricky to enter properly. You may wish to review table construction tips on Help:Table/Introduction to tables, or try testing your edits and content in a "sandbox" e.g. you should have a user sandbox at User:Xanthein/sandbox. Also be sure to indicate sources when adding content, see WP:V, WP:CITE.

If your time is limited, you could also propose your changes on the article's talk page, which is where article improvements and content can be discussed, namely Talk:The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos.

Hope this helps. It is appreciated that there is a learning curve to effectively develop and edit Wikipedia, but time, effort and familiarity with the site should eventually pay off. Dl2000 (talk) 04:04, 22 April 2014 (UTC)