User talk:Clairemchem

August 2018

Hello, I'm Donner60. An edit you recently made to Honda CBX series seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 02:14, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My keyboard went berserk. I have just put in a different one. I am having a little difficulty with it as it is not ergonomic. I will answer you after I look at it for a few minutes. Donner60 (talk) 02:50, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your help. I am looking forward to an updated whenever you are available. Clairemchem (talk) 03:16, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You asked about your edits to Recrystallization (chemistry). You added, then removed, several paragraphs. You may have done this for any number of reasons, including that it was cut and pasted from another web page. That could have been a copyright violation or plagiarism if it were a long passage copied word for word. There may be other reasons. You may have thought the original text had been altered but the resulting text appears to be the same as the one on the page before your edits. Since the original text has been restored, I am not sure why there should be any problem or issue. Let me know if I missed something here or you have another question.

As for Honda CSX series, you added the words "important information." That is not a sentence, of course, and it is an unnecessary addition standing by itself.

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I was trying to summarize an article I read and make a new page under that category but i realized you cant do that afterwards but somehow when I was in edit mode it copied the original article, which isnt my work and it posted it. I quickly deleted it because i dont want to copyright anyones work and also because the information isnt relevant to that page. I know the article is in its orginal conditon but i was wondering if you would be able to delete the edit history of the adding/removing content just so i dont confuse anyone if they look in the history. Clairemchem (talk) 03:31, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to summarize an article I read and make a new page under that category but i realized you cant do that afterwards but somehow when I was in edit mode it copied the original article, which isnt my work and it posted it. I quickly deleted it because i dont want to copyright anyones work and also because the information isnt relevant to that page. I know the article is in its orginal conditon but i was wondering if you would be able to delete the edit history of the adding/removing content just so i dont confuse anyone if they look in the history. Clairemchem (talk) 03:33, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an administrator; only administrators can delete edit history. But I am quite sure they will not do that for what amounts to a mistake. It is clear that you had second thoughts and deleted the text. That shows your good faith. I would not worry that it looks bad. It was fixed by you, that is all that counts. As long as your further edits to the page are good ones, no one cares about the old ones. And only a few people who are interested in the article are even likely to look at the history and they won't be looking for an addition which was retracted by the person who wrote it without anything else intervening. Donner60 (talk) 03:40, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]