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Hello, InsightfulFarragut, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask at the help desk, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to help you get started. Happy editing! - wolf 18:51, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 2022[edit]

Hello, I'm Victor Trevor. I noticed that in this edit to JS Murasame, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. 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. Victor Trevor (talk) 10:22, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, it was more of restoring it to the previous version because the information I put on it had error tags on it. I went back and fixed it with the new information. InsightfulFarragut (talk) 10:34, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copying without attribution[edit]

Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from one or more pages into another page. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. - wolf 19:20, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries[edit]

Information icon Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

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You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits a summary may be quite brief.

Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → check Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! - wolf 19:22, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits[edit]

Today you made dozens upons dozens of edits to US Navy ship articles. However, you will note that virtually all of them needed copyediting, to either complete the bare url references you added, or correct some of the content to meet the MOS, or generally accepted standards for that area of content. This is not criticism so much as a giving you a 'heads up'. I know that you're new to the project and realize that there is a great deal to learn and a steep learning curve.

Just the same, I will ask that you go back through your edits and review the edits that were made following them, to see what changes were needed. It is my hope that going forward, if you continue to edit USN ship pages, that your edits will help build and improve articles, and not be in need of correction by others. Lastly, please keep in mind that WP is an encyclopaedia, not a news outlet or bulletin board. Mining a ship-tracking website for current ship positions and then posting them without much context, is not of much encyclopaedic benefit.

If you need assistance, the 'welcome' template at the top of this page is a good place to start. You can also always ask for help at the help desk. I would also suggest you check out the Teahouse, a resource for new users. And for naval-related matters, you can also check out WikiProjects Military history and Ships. Good luck and welcome to Wikipedia - wolf 04:24, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Lastly, please keep in mind that WP is an encyclopaedia, not a news outlet or bulletin board. Mining a ship-tracking website for current ship positions and then posting them without much context, is not of much encyclopaedic benefit." I do not understand what you are getting at? Granted, all I did was copy what was added on other established pages. So I would assume those pages are wrong as well and since they have not been updated to your standards, I am assuming that you are just barking rather than helping. Cheers. InsightfulFarragut (talk) 13:53, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There is no need to get upset, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, (and never go "assuming" things, it just makes an 'ass' outta 'u' and some guy named 'Ming'). There is no need for hostility, this is a collegial project. If there are similar edits on other articles, I wasn't aware of them as you can't expect me to know every line of content on every single article. I did become aware of your edits however, and the problems with them, and so I am addressing them by bringing them to your attention. The hope is that you will learn from your mistakes, while also correcting them, and seek to improve as an editor, just like I and many others try to do every time we log in.

I will again ask that read the 'welcome' template above and all the links it contains, to start acquainting yourself with our polcies and guidelines, as well as the WP:MOS, and to make use of the other resources for beginners that I linked for you above. And I still ask that you go back through your edit history to review and make corrections where necessary. This isn't a rebuke, it's just advice, and know that just becuase I, or any editor, brings an issue to your attention, it does not mean we're your enemy. Have a nice day - wolf 17:12, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for June 3[edit]

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