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Happy editing! Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 23:34, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
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March 2026
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Gladys Li when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance.
Thank you. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:51, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Zackmann08 I'm sorry about that, I should really have read the infobox help page throughout and checked the template properly. I'll be more careful next time. and thank you for the heads up (and for fixing it yourself)! Myselfthethird (talk) 21:36, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
May 2026
edit Hello, I'm ~2026-14944-70. I noticed that you recently removed all content from a page. Please do not do this. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you wish to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~2026-14944-70 (talk) 20:07, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
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editYes, following up on your edit summary at Yin and yang, there is an enormous amount of information on Wikipedia that needs to be flushed out. That's why people tag articles and remove unsourced content all the time.
As for the end of your edit summary, which got cut off after "I respectfully ask you t", assuming you were asking me to wait till you found a source, couldn't you just have waited to find the source before restoring the information? Largoplazo (talk) 14:46, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Largoplazo Ok, understood. As for the end of my edit summary, the part that got cut off was "(I respectfully ask you t)o not consider this revert to be a confrontation, I'm just doing it because I'm stupid enough to not know another way to restore the excerpt" (or something very close to that; I've tried to select the text from the edit history, which would be the most obvious way, but it seems we can't do that, at least not in the mobile app). Now let me add that the reasons I reverted your revert were: 1) I wondered how much valuable content is ready to be discarded should we be summarily stripping out everything that has an over three years old request for source/reference/citation, AND 2) I took a peek at your user page and realized that I should seize the opportunity to learn this (which I believe is a very relevant matter) from your experience in Wikipedia. (Needless to say, I didn't mean to advocate, neither for nor against any language's phonology hehehe). Nonetheless, you're right that I should have already verified that information before restoring it. Best regards, Myselfthethird (talk) 16:08, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- Hi again, I appreciate your comments. For future reference, if you use Undo instead of Revert, it'll display the updated wiki code for further editing by you beyond the simple reversal of the previous edit.
- I wasn't making any judgment on the choice of the editor who initially removed of the content. I suppose each of us has rules of thumb for when to tag, when to remove without tagging, how long to leave a tag before removing the content, and when to look for a source myself. For untagged content, I consider whether I know the assertions made to be true; they make sense but I can't vouch for them; they seem counterintuitive if true; or they seem implausible or to reflect a misunderstanding. Largoplazo (talk) 17:19, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Largoplazo To be honest, I didn't even know that undoing and reverting were not the same thing... you see, Wikipedia is instruction-creeping my ass off!
- just kidding :)... and once again, thanks for the advice!Myselfthethird (talk) 19:25, 20 May 2026 (UTC)