User talk:AdrianPurley
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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:52, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Overlinking
[edit]Please see WP:OVERLINK. Common English words, well-known place names, dates, etc. should not be blue-linked. This is because you don't want people to click away from your article just to get needlessly sidetracked. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:52, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
- I would echo Ssilvers. Please look at your edit to Jorge M. Pérez, which I have just undone. Plus if you have too many links, the ones that really matter can get overwhelmed. Edwardx (talk) 18:40, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, that's helpful. Just a bit overly eager I guess. Apologies. AdrianPurley (talk) 17:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
- No problem! There's a bit of a learning curve. If you have any questions about editing and content, let me know. I've been around since 2006! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:13, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
August 2016
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Hello! Thank you for your recent contributions to Eyal Ofer. I did have one note for you. I am working on a maintenance project to clean up Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:
|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]
Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:
|image=SomeImage.jpg.
There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks!! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:22, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Zackmann08, helpful tip! AdrianPurley (talk) 13:40, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
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