AmandaJohnson2014

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AmandaJohnson2014, good luck, and have fun. – PamD 17:34, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

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Hallo and thank you for starting the article on Mark Nigrini. I came across it while stub-sorting, and have made a few minor changes:

• I moved it to this new title, as the faculty webpage shows him to be known without his middle initial. In general Wikipedia uses "firstname surname" unless someone is known to be best known using their middle name(s)/initial(s). By moving the page I created a redirect from the form with the initial, so people can find him either way.
• You had "piped" a lot of links unnecessarily, eg "[[BBC|BBC]]". You only need to use the "|" in a link if what you want to appear as the link is different from the article title - and spaces appearing as underlines don't make any difference. You can see the links I've changed. It makes the text of the article much easier to read for the next editor.
• You'd located the university as at "Morgantown, WV". Don't forget that this is an international encyclopedia, so it's important (a) not to use US-specific abbreviations which are pretty cryptic to the rest of the world, and (b) not to assume that everywhere is in the USA. I've changed it.

You need to find more external sources showing his notability: apart from his faculty page, your only references are 3 of his papers. See WP:PROF for guidelines about demonstrating "notability" for academics.

There is a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey. Happy Editing! PamD 17:43, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Mark Nigrini

Hi Amanda! Thank you for your contributions in creating the article for Mark Nigrini. I added an infobox, additional categories, and WikiProject templates on the article's talk page. Please continue to add information to the article from reputable sources--it has a lot of potential! -- Caponer (talk) 04:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 20:15, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Minor edits

Hi AmandaJohnson2014! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 08:41, 9 November 2020 (UTC)