User talk:Xlilyxx

July 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Morelia spilota cheynei has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 09:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Morelia spilota cheynei
Hi Xlilyxx, Although I am certain that your edits to Morelia spilota cheynei were in good faith, I had no choice but to revert to a previous version of the article. The reason is simple: these articles are not meant to be HOWTOs for snake keepers. It's true that many of them do carry short sections on captivity, such as Bitis arietans, Vipera ammodytes and Python regius, but these are always short, referenced and contain only very general information. Primarily, these are natural history articles, so if you have any relevant books at home or have managed to find any PDFs on the subject via the web, use those as your sources of information. The idea is to paraphrase from those articles (not plagiarize) and always show where you get every bit of information from, no matter how small, by using the footnote system. The aforementioned articles contain plenty of examples. Anyway, sorry to have been so hard on you regarding your first efforts, but if you work according to these guidelines there's a good chance that you'll get an idea of what it's like to be a real herpetologist. It's fun and you'll learn a lot in the process! Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 11:19, 4 July 2008 (UTC)