User talk:2607:F2C0:E006:34:B591:B775:FB69:86A5

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Again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 08:28, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Editing the lead

Any editor should use caution when editing the lead, and brand new editors all the more so. I've undone a number of your changes to Loaded language and to Anglicism, because they were contrary to the purpose of the lead in Wikipedia. WP:LEAD says, The lead should identify the topic and summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight. Also, there should be nothing in the lead that is unique, or not already covered in the body of the article. Quoting from the guideline supplement Wikipedia:How to create and manage a good lead section: There should not be anything in the lead that does not refer to specific content in the article and is not backed up by specific references found in the article. Editing the lead is particularly difficult, and assumes a broad familiarity with the entire article, so it can be appropriately summarized in a neutral way, and with appropriate weight to each subtopic. That's a tough order for a new editor.

There is a lot to learn when editing at Wikipedia, and making mistakes, getting reverted, and trying your edits again is part of the process. You'll have a smoother transition as an editor, if you avoid changing the lead of articles for now, and instead concentrate on improving the body of the article. The most important principles to learn at the outset are Verifiability, Neutral point of view. As long as your changes summarize material found in reliable sources that you have consulted, and are backed up with citations to those sources, you should be fine. See Help:Footnotes for further information. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 08:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

I've made full or partial reversions also to Buzzword, Literal and figurative language, and Loanword. I can see that you have good knowledge of linguistics and a wish to contribute, and that's great! But I think you need to slow down a bit, absorb some of Wikipedia's culture and its policies and guidelines regarding WP:Verifiability, consensus, and the purpose of the lead, and edit carefully and deliberately, paying attention to what came before, and how to best improve the article through careful additions to the body of the article, taking care to integrate it into the current structure, and providing careful citations to the material you add.

A good way to ensure Verifiability, is by the use of {{citation}} templates inside <ref> tags; this will make it easy to generate a proper reference. The most important variants of that template are {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, and {{cite web}}, depending where your source resides. You can see examples at the usage section on the documentation for each one. Here's a blank {{cite book}} template that you can copy and paste right into an article you are editing. Just fill out as many fields as you know (minimum: author, title, date, page) and place it in the article after the material it supports:

<ref>{{cite book |author1= |author2= |title= |date= |page= |url= |location= |publisher= |isbn= |doi= |access-date= }}</ref>

There are lots more parameters that can be added to {{cite book}}; see the full list at the Template doc page. Also see Help:footnotes for general information. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 09:26, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Creole language into Loanword. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:01, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Changes to Canada articles

Your pattern of changes to articles about Canada is remiscent of a pattern of contributions by other new editors in the same IPv6 CIDR block. Reviewing the comments at their talk pages, here and here, may benefit your editing as well. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 00:58, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

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