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Rosanna Carteri, sorry, I reverted you. Please check if I overlooked something. We don't link to composers of operas with an article (people who really don't know who Wagner was can find it in the opera, - we want to avoid a "sea of blue". The lead is for an overview, not precision. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
November 2020
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Hello, I'm 108.56.139.120. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Alan Burke (director), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. – 108.56.139.120 (talk) 03:26, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm Darren-M. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person, Jill Perryman, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Darren-M talk 19:05, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
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Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did with this edit to Jacqueline Boyer. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Materialscientist (talk) 16:21, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Adding Infoboxes
editHello 1.43.249.174. I have noticed that you are adding infoboxes to several articles. Thank you for helping to improve Wikipedia by doing that. However, in nearly every {{infobox person}} you've added there have been a couple of common mistakes. Every parameter for {{infobox person}} must have an equals sign, "=". The infoboxes you are adding have two parameters (|image= and |caption=), for which you have left off the equals signs. For example, this edit you made to Ivan Dayman shows that those two parameters are missing their equals signs. As a result, the article appeared in the tracking category Category:Infobox person using numbered parameter, which is used to track errors like that. I've already fixed that mistake, but, in the future, if you'll use the "Show preview" button when you are editing a page, it will tell you near the top of the page whether you have errors, so that you can correct them before publishing the changes. Here's what the error messages will show for those particular mistakes:
Warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with unknown parameter "1 = image " (this message is shown only in preview).Warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with unknown parameter "2 = caption " (this message is shown only in preview).
Thanks for your help. – 108.56.139.120 (talk) 08:29, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
- I'm pleading with you to be more careful with your edits. You are causing more work for your fellow editors. You must cooperate with your fellow editors. If you need help on understanding your mistake, let me know, or add {{help me}} to your talk page and someone should get in contact with you. Alternatively you can ask for help at the Teahouse. Separately, I will add some more information to your talk page about how to use the "Show preview" button to detect these mistakes before you publish your changes. Thank you for being courteous and helpful to your fellow editors. – 108.56.139.120 (talk) 19:03, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
November 2020
edit Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.
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Thanks! – 108.56.139.120 (talk) 09:58, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. You continue to make the same mistakes when adding infoboxes. You are not being careful enough and it is bordering on being reckless. Please change your editing behavior so your fellow editors don't need to clean up your mistakes over and over. – 108.56.139.120 (talk) 15:48, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
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