User talk:Carlosmarkos2345

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Happy editing! Wiiformii (talk) 01:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation errors[edit]

Hi Carlosmarkos2345. Thanks for adding certifications Wikipedia was missing, your contributions are appreciated. However, there are some recurring errors you are making which I needed to correct, the most important being citation errors. If you leave the article without a working citation, the certification cannot be verified which undermines the purpose of Wikipedia. Let me list some of the corrections I needed to make by way of example:

In this edit you added a Spain certification but didn't provide the source. There are three ways to add sources for Spanish certifications and the simplest one is to provide |artist= and |title=, as I did Special:Diff/1232335898, after verifying it is working. Other citation methods can be seen in the {{Certification Table Entry}} documentation.
In this edit you used the incorrect artist name so the citation didn't work. This is the corrected version.
In this edit you added an old RIAA certification but the citation is incorrect since the title was not the one being used by the RIAA database. I corrected it here.
In this edit you added another old RIAA certification but the citation didn't work. I corrected it by working around the ' sign here.
In this edit you used the incorrect artist name so the citation failed. Corrected here
You used {{Certification Table Bottom}} template incorrectly several times. The bottom template should match the footnotes used in the table itself. An example of how I corrected it can be seen here.
You used the incorrect |caption= "Sales and certifications for X". If you don't override the sales amount using |salesamount= and |salesref=, the caption should be "Certifications for X".
In almost all your edits, you are using |access-date= incorrectly. This parameter is for "Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article", see for example {{cite web}}.

There were also other minor errors but I Think this is enough to chew on. I recommend that you use the preview button and make sure your citations are working before submitting an edit, or, at the very least, check the citation after you submit the edit. If you need any assistance, {{ping}} me or leave me a message on my talk page and I'd be happy to help. --Muhandes (talk) 07:05, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the efforts you made on your recent edits, but please review your edits and make sure the citations work. In this edit, made recently, the citation didn't work and I needed to correct it. The RIAA database is quite finicky and you sometimes need to massage the title and artist until the citation works. Muhandes (talk) 11:12, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You continue to mean well, but sadly, you also continue not checking your citations. The resulting citation of this edit for the Spanish database doesn't work. This is the correct citation. I really don't want to stalk you, so I'm not going to do that anymore (unless you come up on one of the maintenance categories again). Just please pay more attention and check your citations. My offer for help still stands, {{ping}} me or leave me a message. Happy editing. Muhandes (talk) 09:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are forcing the community's hand to do something about this situation.

This source doesn't work. Corrected here. Also, the bottom of the table is wrong, corrected here.
I had to correct this source too. The bottom template was also incorrect
This source was incorrect, and as you can see, other editors will revert a non-working source. I corrected it here but this is not acceptable.
The bottom table template was wrong 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 times !!!

I am starting to think that there is a problem of competence here. Maybe you have good intentions, but you are not competent enough to edit in a net positive manner. You create too much work that others have to clean up. Also, note that Communication is required. Wikipedia is a collaborative project. Sometimes, you must engage in constructive discussions with others or you risk sanctions. Your heart is in the correct place, but if you continue to create so much work for the community to fix, and are not willing to communicate, perhaps you should not be editing. Muhandes (talk) 07:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July 2024[edit]

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Little Willy (song), you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 01:26, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got). Muhandes (talk) 06:57, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also on Hitchin' a Ride (Vanity Fare song). This has got to stop. Muhandes (talk) 07:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]