User talk:BRH266

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:05, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Fuel crisis. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 21:53, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Fuel crisis

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You may prefer to edit an article such as 2022 global energy crisis. Leschnei (talk) 18:12, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Your draft

Hi. I removed your additions to the energy crisis article because they aren't ready for mainspace. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and you need an appropriately formal tone for your writing. For example

Price of gas have been through the ruff. Not only are prices high but supplies for gas is low. There are many causes for this. One being the war in Ukraine.

• "Through the ruff" isn't appropriate language for Wikipedia
• "There are many causes for this" is too vague to be helpful
• You didn't include any references

The war in Ukraine has been going on for several months as of ( October 17th, 2022) and there is no end in sight. Just like any war Ukraine is using a lot of resources but has no time to deliver the resources that it normally does. This dose not just effect Ukraine but the effects are being felt globally. The war that Ukraine is in is a war with Russia. Russia has stopped producing oil in turn to fight this war. "Global access to oil and gas has been significantly reduced." Now that gas is reduced that means the demand for what is produced will be higher. "Crude oil prices—currently up 33 per cent—are projected to rise above 50 per cent by the end of the year" Now since Ukraine is in the war with Russia they are experiencing the worst of the problem. "For the past three weeks the country has found itself in the midst of an acute fuel shortage which means that all but a handful of pumps nationwide are closed to the public."

References

• "Several months...no end in sight" is too vague.
• "Just like any war Ukraine is using a lot of resources" - this is too informal and vague.
• "This dose [sic] not just effect Ukraine" - it's important that you copyedit your work before moving it to mainspace.
• "The war that Ukraine is in is a war with Russia" - You should link to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine the first time to mention the war. By using formal language and a link, there's no need to explain thing. (Also the language here is much too casual and informal)
• You should only use quotations when the information in the source you're citing can't be paraphrased without a significant loss of meaning. That's not the case with the quotes you're using here.

Now you may be thinking ok they don't have gas how bad can it be. Bad it can be very bad. "Ukraine in a given year is either the third or fourth biggest source of agricultural imports."With the lack of fuel Ukraine can not operate like it used to. "Farmers need fuel, mostly diesel, to power their tractors, plows, combines, and delivery trucks." Since they are not getting fuel due to power outages and the dock imports being blocked all of the normal exports are not being produced and if they are then they are not leaving Ukraine.

References

• "Now you may be thinking ok they don't have gas how bad can it be." A Wikipedia article is only supposed to report on what reliable sources say about the article. You aren't supposed to add your own commentary like this, and you shouldn't be trying to convince your readers. Generally speaking, if you're using the first or second person in a Wikipedia article, you're getting the tone wrong.

So now that we understand a little about why we are in a fuel crisis lets talk about the effects that its having.

• You're never talking directly to your readers.
• Copyediting is important - "let's" and "it's" not "lets" and "its".

Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 7 November 2022 (UTC)