User talk:Huijsteven

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February 2018[edit]

Hello, I'm Cyrus noto3at bulaga. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Postcolonialism seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Cyrus noto3at bulaga (Talk to me) 01:05, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Huijsteven: You asked the editor above at his talk page what edits you'd made to Postcolonialism. There are two places to find that out: one is the history page for the article (you should see a History tab at the top of every Wikipedia page, including this one), and the other is the list of your contributions (you should see a link to Contributions at the top right of every page when you're logged in, and "User contributions" in the sidebar on the left when you're on this page or, after you create it, your user page). Unless, that is, you're looking at the mobile view and it's different? (I am still living in the pre-smartphone age.) The problem with your two edits to that page is that you put an editorial question in the text of the article itself. It's not a bad question; that's kind of what "{{POV statement|date=February 2018}}" means. But you should have either put it on Talk:Postcolonialism—articles have talk pages for discussion about improving them, and that qualifies—or put it within , which would make it only visible to other editors editing the article, and not to readers. In the "skin" I use, I see a bar at the top of the edit window that includes buttons for that and also for the "ignore wiki formatting" that I have used here to make the editing symbols visible to you; if you're using Vector, the default, there's probably a pull-down menu instead. I hope these explanations help. Thanks for editing and please don't be discouraged; we all get reverted and templated sometimes, it's part of being in a big collaboration.Yngvadottir (talk) 04:23, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]