User talk:Derekcolvin

Hello, Derekcolvin! 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 me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Iamawesome800 02:38, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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November 2010

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Water taxi worked, but it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 20:11, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is invited to contribute, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Kent State shootings, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Yunshui 雲‍水 12:39, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit to Norm Macdonald

Hello. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person (Norm Macdonald), but that you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. 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! Materialscientist (talk) 12:44, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

May 2021

It may not have been your intention, but one of your edits, specifically one that you made on Chelsea Manning, may have been a change that some consider controversial. Due to this, your edits may have been reverted. When making possibly controversial changes, it is good practice to first discuss your edit on the article's talk page before making it, to gain consensus over whether or not to include the text, phrasing, etc. If you believe that the information you added was correct, please initiate that discussion. Thank you. – S. Rich (talk) 02:46, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]