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Merge discussion for Malishegu

An article that you have been involved in editing, Malshagu, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. —M@sssly^✉ 12:15, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

More on Mergers and Redirects

What will happen is that the contents of "Malshegu" will be copied and added to "Malishegu". After that "Malshegu" will be deleted. To make sure people will find "Malishegu" on Wikipedia even if they searched using the term "Malshegu", a "redirect" will be created. A redirect is simply an alternative name that people might use to find the article they are looking for. So whether they search for the "retained article name" (Malishegu) or "the redirect" (Malshegu), they will land on the article "Malishegu". More on redirects is found at Wikipedia:Redirect and to make one you go to Wikipedia:How to make a redirect. —M@sssly^✉ 16:39, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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October 2015

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Zoosali, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. 220 of ^Borg 15:04, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Your way of editing

Din-nani1I have now taken a close look at your edits. Specifically Diare.

• You are often adding one word per edit. Why? This is totally unnecessary. I have never seen anyone do this before in 6 years editing WP. You should be able to create these stubby little pages in one edit. as said above you are "clogging up recent changes and the page history"
• Secondly your edit summaries are misleading, and constantly using "added content" is not very informative.

• Here you again "added content". No, you didnt. You created a new page, which is fairly obvious, but the summary should say so.

• Here you say "Article created", whereas "Article finished" would be more accurate.

As most of the text is the same, perhaps you can try this:

• Copy the text of one of your existing pages, from the edit window,
• Create your next new page, under the next community's name,
• Paste the text in (Don't save it yet!),
• Edit the text so that it only refers to the community it is to be about, not the one you copied it from,
• WP:Preview the text to check that it is correct,
• If correct, then save. Check again for errors

If you do this, then you can create a new page in 5-10 minutes and one edit. Not the 25 edits and 35 minutes that you used to crate Diare!

• An alternative is to create pages as WP:Drafts, then when it is correct, WP:Move it into article space.

Please, you will find it a lot quicker to edit if you use the Show preview button, which is right next to the Save page button, rather than what you seem to be doing, constantly saving the page just to see what it looks like!

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• Hi, 220 of Borg, thank you for spotting the flaws in Din-nani1's editing style. Going through the edit histories of Diare and Zoosali this is something I should have noticed myself but I didn't, and I'm glad you got to it first and even happy that you took the time to outline how they can improve their style moving forward. As you would imagine these are Common newcomer errors and that amount of patience was necessary. Let me add that at the moment, we do not have a (I don't know of any) policy on Wikipedia that restricts editors to only save "entire pages", "entire paragraphs", "full sentences" " single words" or "letters". That I believe should be at the discretion of the individual editor. However, because Wikipedia is consumed by readers at any given time (even when it is being edited someone might be reading the "last saved version") I do think it makes sense that for any single save made to an article, it should be consumable to the general public with every word or sentence falling into an appropriate context. I hope Din-nani1 will agree that including single words or letters (or half sentences) cannot meet this requirement and that may end up confusing our readers. The ethics here are numerous and so I do not expect that they should understand all of them just yet, It'll take some time. To conclude I would reiterate the recommendations you already made to Din-nani1; use Show preview button more before clicking Save page, avoid including words but full sentences only (at least) if not whole paragraphs, and all will be fine. Best Regards to the both of you. —M@sssly^✉ 14:16, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Yeh, thanks for chiming in Massly. Din-nani seems to be creating a page in 3 edits now, instead of' 'many'. Ideally I would recommend that Din-nani, especially as they are constantly creating new articles, (17 so far) create them as wp:drafts, then move them to article space when they are finished. But 3 edits is ok for me.

• I'm wondering about their use of the "See also" to link to a category though, like this.

[[:Category:Suburbs of Savelugu-Nanton, Ghana|Suburbs of Savelugu-Nanton(Ghana) District]] appearing like: Suburbs of Savelugu-Nanton(Ghana) District

Don't think I've see that done before either. 220 of ^Borg 17:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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Difference between References and External Links

What is the difference between references and external links?Din-nani1 (talk) 21:15, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

• Hi Din-nani1 a reference is a link, or relevant information, to the source of information in an article. A user should be able to use the references to verify the given information. External links are for links associated with the topic but not directly references. For instance references for a comany should mostly be independent so to sources out side of the company, but often the companies url would be added as an external link. See Wikipedia:References and Wikipedia:External links for more info. Regards 12:42, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
• Great explanation,i am very grateful for that--41.66.208.8 (talk) 13:21, 11 November 2015 (UTC).

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