User talk:49.188.182.39

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Happy editing! I dream of horses ^{(talk) (contribs)} _{Remember to {{ping}} me after replying off my talk page} 04:23, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to "Sicilians"

Hi, welcome and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I'd like to point out a few things you might want to be aware of, in order to make things go more smoothly.

Most importantly, you've added a significant amount of material to the Sicilians article in the last two weeks, but you haven't provided any citations of reliable, published sources. Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged. This is one of Wikipedia's core content policies. Unless you can provide these, other editors may remove or revert your changes. Consistently adding unsourced material may lead to complaints about your editing.

Secondly, you should normally provide a edit summary explaining the changes you've made. This will help other editors undertand what you're doing and why, and can also lessen the chances that others will undo your changes.

Another thing that would help is to combine small edits. I see that you've made over two hundred edits in the past week, most of them being very small changes. If you're making a series of related changes or adjustments that could all be described with one edit summary, and you're using "edit source" instead of the "edit" visual editor, you can use the "Show preview" button to see the effect of your changes before saving. I'll leave a standard note about that below. On the other hand, it's possible to combine too many edits at once, and risk that the whole thing could be reverted because of one or two problems. It's best to find a balance and group similar edits together under one explanation.

It also might be a good idea to review some of the linking guidelines, like MOS:OVERLINKING, MOS:DUPLINK, and MOS:SUBMARINE.

One more thing, I noticed in some places like the "Demographics" section that there are very long, run-on sentences with lists of up to seventy different ethnic groups for example. The first problem is that the list is unsourced, and would need a citation. Apart from that, it seems somewhat arbitrary, and could expand indefinitely. Articles should generally be written in an encyclopedic prose style, see WP:TONE. When information isn't compatible with that, it should be re-written, simplified, moved to a more specific article that can be linked to, or possibly put in a list form, see MOS:LIST.

I hope this helps... --IamNotU (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 2020

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Sicilians, 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.

The "show preview" button is right next to the "publish changes" button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. IamNotU (talk) 20:36, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

April 2020

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Charles I of Anjou into another page. 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. In this edit: [1] you copied large passages of text from several places, most of which seems to come from other Wikipedia articles including Charles I of Anjou and Muslim settlement of Lucera, and pasted it into the article without attribution. In the process, you also removed the citations from the text copied from Wikipedia because you copied the displayed text rather than the wiki source. Because of this I have reverted the article to the previous version. I haven't had time to check further back, but it may be necessary to revert more of the edits. Please follow the correct procedure for copying within Wikipedia, and ensure that all additions are verifiable with citations of reliable sources. Thank-you. IamNotU (talk) 12:35, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not add or change content, as you did at Sicilians, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. I see that you have been continuing to make numerous edits to the article, but still have not cited any reliable sources that I can see. Please note that some or all of these contributions may be challenged and removed by other editors if you fail to provide adequate citations. Thanks. IamNotU (talk) 12:42, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see other messages at User talk:49.188.103.161, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 01:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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