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Your edits

Hi, SpiritedMichelle. I understand you're a new editor, and your enthusiasm is beneficial and constructive. Welcome aboard. A couple of things: As per the guideline at WP:DATED, Wikipedia can't say things like "currently" or "recently" since such terms quickly become meaningless with time. Best to use such phrasing as "As of October 2013" or similar.

Also, I've noticed you enter a lot of raw URLs for citing. I ask you not do so but rather add properly cited footnotes, which include, at minimum, an article's title, date, newspaper/magazine name, and author (last name first). It's also good to add the date the article was accessed. You can find more information at WP:CITE, WP:FOOTNOTE and related pages.

Finally, I've noticed you sometimes add uncited claims in Reception sections, saying things like, "Many critics felt that this was the best episode of the season." Aside from Wikipedia needing exceptional sources for such superlative claims, you need to actually find and quote critics saying that particular thing.

I know this seems like a lot to take in, but like anything else, being a Wikipedia editor takes practice. The most important thing to keep in mind is that this is an encyclopedia. If newspaper are the first draft of history, an encyclopedia should be the final word: impeccably sourced concrete statements as neutral and accurate as humanly possible. Thanks again for joining us and Happy Wiki'ing! --Tenebrae (talk) 05:48, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, SpiritedMichelle. I've reverted or changed your edits to Thiago Soares, Marianela Núñez, Federico Bonelli, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sarah Lamb, Zenaida Yanowsky, and Maria Kochetkova that added the phrasing "As of November 2013..." to the lead sentences. See above, or send me a note, for an explanation.

Also, thank you for decapitalizing the title "principal" in those lead sentences. Dkreisst (talk) 03:48, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spirited Michelle. Thank you for the note, that was a fine use of user talk space. Often, users like to keep both sides of a conversation on one page. If you feel this way, post your response here on this page: I will be monitoring it for any response.

Your edits were perfect based on the information User:Tenebrae gave to you with the link to WP:DATED. I changed the sentences because I felt that, while it seems that dancers' hierarchical positions do change pretty regularly in the ballet world, the status of the dancers was permanent enough that a specific date did not need to be attached to the time the article was last updated. That is, when the intro sentence reading "X is a British ballet dancer dancing as a soloist with the Royal Ballet" is no longer true, due to a change of company, promotion, or change of profession, the sentence can simply be updated when that happens. I found the style page Wikipedia:As of useful when trying to figure this out.

If you feel that the article would not be updated quickly enough, feel free to change it back. If you have any other questions about wikipedia, please feel free to drop me a note. Also, consider checking out Wikipedia:WikiProject Ballet and remember to be bold! Dkreisst (talk) 06:55, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are doing just fine. Thank you for your work and for your patience in dealing with wikipedia policy. Let me know if you have any more questions. Dkreisst (talk) 00:57, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello!

Hi! Thanks for adding the visitor numbers info to the British Museum page. Sorry to keep on about this (as it's been mentioned on your talk page before), but that wasn't a minor edit (as you actually added information and a reference). You do a lot of grammar corrections, which is great, and are classed as minor edits, even though they're important. But when you're adding info or categories or references, then they're not minor.

Anyway, any more info you've got for the British Museum would be great - given how important it is it'd be good to improve the page!

Thanks and all the best, GPRutter (talk) 09:05, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Thanks! Yes, that's fine to respond there, or here - people tend to check back when they've left a message (on your contributions list it shows whether your edit is the current last edit or not). No problem, and do ask if there's anything that you're not sure about (although I've just re-started editing, so they've made some changes!). GPRutter (talk) 20:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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IMDB

Hi SpiritedMichelle, please note that I have reverted your addition of a DOB to Jess Weixler as you used IMDB as the source of the information. Per long standing consensus, IMDB is not a reliable source for biographical statistics in biography articles. You can read more about the use of IMDB here, here, and here.--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 18:52, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, SpiritedMichelle. See here and here for why I undid your format of the Critical reception section at the Orphan Black article. Per MOS:PARAGRAPHS, "Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading." Flyer22 (talk) 01:05, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Photo

Hello SpiritedMichelle, I can see that you placed a photo on the International Debutante Ball Wikipedia. Would you mind removing it as it is a copyrighted photo that should not be on Wikipedia? Thank you.--Sirmagoo (talk) 12:43, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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	Hello SpiritedMichelle, I can see that you placed a photo on the [[International Debutante Ball]] Wikipedia. Would you mind removing it as it is a copyrighted photo that should not be on Wikipedia? Thank you. ~~<small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures\|unsigned]] comment added by~~ [[User:Sirmagoo\|Sirmagoo]] ([[User talk:Sirmagoo\|talk~~]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sirmagoo\|contribs~~]]) 12:41, 4 June 2015 (UTC)~~</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->~~		Hello SpiritedMichelle, I can see that you placed a photo on the [[International Debutante Ball]] Wikipedia. Would you mind removing it as it is a copyrighted photo that should not be on Wikipedia? Thank you.--[[User:Sirmagoo\|Sirmagoo]] ([[User talk:Sirmagoo\|talk]]) 12:43, 4 June 2015 (UTC)