User talk:Stephaniesoftball

Molly Schuyler ate 3 BIG TEX challenges in exactly 20 minutes. This accomplishment can be viewed on YOU TUBE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mollyboy (talk • contribs) 14:36, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

April 2011

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Baby Scoop Era

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September 2016

Your recent edit to List of defunct retailers of the United States appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person or organization added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. SummerPhD^v2.0 01:16, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You erased a large part of a day's work I did. Some of the entries I made were notable, in that they had more stores when they closed than others already listed. A lot of the stores were from the 1970's-90's, which many people now don't remember. I added some good knowledge to wikipedia. I didn't have time to create a separate entry. I wanted to add those before people forgot them. What is your response v2.0?

Stephaniesoftball (talk) 05:14, 4 September 2016 (UTC)Stephaniesoftball[reply]

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Communication on Wikipedia is generally handled transparently on talk pages. I do not respond to emails. If you have a concern about the content of an article, start a discussion on the article's talk page. If you have a concern about an editor's behavior, start a discussion on their talkpage. The assertions you made in the email about how Wikipedia works are entirely incorrect. I'd suggest starting a discussion on the article's talkpage, as what we have here is a content dispute. There was nothing whatsoever improper in my actions. I would not suggest simply replacing the removed content. That would be edit warring and a violation of the policy WP:BURDEN. Start a discussion, gain a consensus. That is how Wikipedia works. John from Idegon (talk) 17:30, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

After reading the entry above this, I would strongly suggest that you learn a bit more about what Wikipedia is and isn't. To that end, I am going to add a package of information to this page that would normally be left for a brand new user. Hope it helps. Everyone's contributions here are valued, but you seem to lack an understanding of how our editorial process works. Sometimes, additions get reverted. It's standard operating procedure. The most usual reasons are lack of verifiability or not being neutral in tone. Please read some of the material below. It will help! John from Idegon (talk) 17:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding references can be easy

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
Then click on "Templates".
Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header ==References== is near the end of the article.
And check that {{Reflist}} is directly underneath that header.

7. Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
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