User talk:24.251.87.63

Welcome[change source]

Hello, 24.251.87.63, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your changes. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Sadly, one of the pages you started, like "Peter Thomas", may not fit some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages and may soon be deleted.

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I hope you enjoy changing pages here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will turn into your username and the date. If you have any questions, ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 13:51, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update: We've fixed the Peter Thomas article so it is no longer in danger of being deleted. Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 15:04, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

May 2016[change source]

We like and strongly encourage helpful changes to Wikipedia, but "Drew Massey" was directly copied and pasted from the main English Wikipedia. Please do not do that. Such articles are usually too complex. They need to be simplified before or immediately after being added to the Simple English Wikipedia. In addition, be sure to include attribution on the article's talk page. Thank you. Auntof6 (talk) 05:38, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not make bad pages. Doing so is against our rules. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.. Remember, pages must show the person or topic is notable. Macdonald-ross (talk) 14:31, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not create redirects to pages that don't exist, like you did with Lonnie Smith (jazz musician) which redirects to Lonnie Smith (a page that does not yet exist). In the future, if you are planning to create a page about someone or something, make that page first, then create any needed redirects. Thank you and happy editing. Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 14:50, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. You might not have done it on purpose, but your recent change removed helpful information from Wikipedia. We ask that you do not remove things from pages, as you did to "User talk:24.251.87.63", without giving a good reason in the change summary. If it was a mistake, do not worry. The part of the article you removed has been put back. If you want to try things out, please use the sandbox. If you would like to learn how to help Wikipedia, please see the welcome page. Thank you. Do not delete your talk pages Lolcats20 (talk) 10:43, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Alan Zweibel[change source]

Thank you for the article you started. It was clearly based on the Enwiki article. You seem to understand why such articles must be simplified, but we also need to provide Transwiki attribution. That is, give credit to the editors there who created and improved the article. This is the only legal requirement to use an article from another Wikipedia. We have templates for this and I added one for you on the Talk:Alan Zweibel page. Also, the sources used at Enwiki in this case were problematic in that they failed verification. They did not fully support the statements they were attributed to. I corrected the problems, corrected the named reference error and added new source citations. When you bring over and simplify a new page from another Wikipedia (and give attribution on the talk page), do not assume the source citations are all good. Please check the ones you can by clicking on them there and verifying they support the statement(s) in the article. Some will be broken links, in which case we can't use them, while in other cases they may have little or nothing to do with the statement, in which case we shouldn't use them. Don't be afraid to add additional source citations to make a better article here. If you have any questions, please ask. Again, thanks for your work on this article. User:Rus793 (talk) 16:08, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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