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Hello, Kc7txm! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can 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

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May 2019

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Commodore 16, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 06:43, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks CASSIOPEIA for helping me learn more about being constructive with citations Kc7txm (talk) 23:46, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kc7txm, Greetings. You are most welcome. You could check out referencing for beginner for more info and instructions and use "horizontal" Template:Cite Web format if the sources are from the internet. Let me know if anything else I could help. cheers. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 03:04, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@CASSIOPEIA: Thanks again CASSIOPEIA for more insight. I have used the horizontal format for web sources quite a bit. I have tried to stay inside my sphere of knowledge with edits and cleaning up dead links and missing citations. I'm still learning policies and procedures everyday. Thank you again. Kc7txm (talk) 00:50, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kc7txm, You are welcome for anything I could help you to contribute constructively is time well spent. If the sources are from book then use the "horizontal" Template:Cite book. If the source are from Google books then once you find the info you wanted, just copy and paste the "URL" into Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books and click "load", the "ref tag" will appear. Copy the "reg tag" and past it next to the texts on the associated article for inline citation. Btw, do WP:PING the editor, so they would receive a notification. You need to do that in all "talk pages" except the editor talk page. Since this is your talk page and not mine, you need to ping me when you write to me. I knew of your message to me for your talk page is on my watchlist. You could set WP:WATCHLIST in any page (article, talk page, WP and etc) by clicking the "start" icon on the menu on to of the page. I have added the "ping tag" on your previous message to me (pls view it on "source editing" mode). Let me know if anything else I could help. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 04:17, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@CASSIOPEIA: once again, thanks for another good lesson. Ping is definitely one I will use, I'm adding tools to my toolbox every day now. Kc7txm (talk) 08:04, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kc7txm,Thank you for pinging me. well done

. Check out Help:Wikitext, there are the common "Wiki mark up" we use on Wiki communication and editing which you will find beneficial. Cheers. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing

Hi, thanks for your edits. Regarding your edits at Disk image, note that many sources you can find online aren't considered reliable sources on Wikipedia. For example blogs (unless they're from a recognized expert) and especially for product pages. Also, adding links to your own blog is considered spam. Also please explain this edit, the archived link works for me, what's your reason for removing it? Not that it's a particularly good source either. -- intgr [talk] 16:24, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was using an http 404 finder tool on the page to find dead links and when I loaded it the page on archive was not showing anything besides a connection error. I'm still learning how to do stuff on Wikipedia, I'll keep that in mind. I've mostly been involved with trying to improve articles in my areas of expertise (fixing language and grammar, finding dead links, sourcing missing citations). How did you link directly to the edit (that would really help me when I'm trying to engage with people in the article Talk pages as I have had to over explain where items are on the page / edits)? Obviously I see it's throwing the &diff=prev&oldid=899440327&diffmode=source parameter at the end of the link but where can I go to generate that or find that so I can link it to other people link you have done here @Intgr:?

Revision as of 17:01, 30 May 2019 edit Kc7txm (talk \| contribs) 271 edits m Fixed spelling error. ← Previous edit		Revision as of 17:10, 30 May 2019 edit undo Kc7txm (talk \| contribs) 271 edits m Clarifying my question to intgr Next edit →
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	Hi, thanks for your edits. Regarding your edits at [[Disk image]], note that many sources you can find online aren't considered [[WP:RS\|reliable sources]] on Wikipedia. For example blogs (unless they're from a recognized expert) and especially for product pages. Also, adding links to your own blog is considered [[WP:CITESPAM\|spam]]. Also please explain [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Defragmentation&diff=prev&oldid=899440327&diffmode=source this edit], the archived link works for me, what's your reason for removing it? Not that it's a particularly good source either. -- [[user:intgr\|intgr]] <small>[[user talk:intgr\|[talk]]]</small> 16:24, 30 May 2019 (UTC)		Hi, thanks for your edits. Regarding your edits at [[Disk image]], note that many sources you can find online aren't considered [[WP:RS\|reliable sources]] on Wikipedia. For example blogs (unless they're from a recognized expert) and especially for product pages. Also, adding links to your own blog is considered [[WP:CITESPAM\|spam]]. Also please explain [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Defragmentation&diff=prev&oldid=899440327&diffmode=source this edit], the archived link works for me, what's your reason for removing it? Not that it's a particularly good source either. -- [[user:intgr\|intgr]] <small>[[user talk:intgr\|[talk]]]</small> 16:24, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

	:I was using an http 404 finder tool on the page to find dead links and when I loaded it the page on archive was not showing anything besides a connection error. I'm still learning how to do stuff on Wikipedia, I'll keep that in mind. I've mostly been involved with trying to improve articles in my areas of expertise (fixing language and grammar, finding dead links, sourcing missing citations). How did you link directly to the edit (that would really help me when I'm trying to engage with people in the article Talk pages as I have had to over explain where items are on the page / edits)? Obviously I see it's throwing the &diff=prev&oldid=899440327&diffmode=source parameter at the end of the link but where can I go to generate that or find that so I can link it to other people {{ping\|intgr}}?		:I was using an http 404 finder tool on the page to find dead links and when I loaded it the page on archive was not showing anything besides a connection error. I'm still learning how to do stuff on Wikipedia, I'll keep that in mind. I've mostly been involved with trying to improve articles in my areas of expertise (fixing language and grammar, finding dead links, sourcing missing citations). How did you link directly to the edit (that would really help me when I'm trying to engage with people in the article Talk pages as I have had to over explain where items are on the page / edits)? Obviously I see it's throwing the &diff=prev&oldid=899440327&diffmode=source parameter at the end of the link but where can I go to generate that or find that so I can link it to other people link you have done here {{ping\|intgr}}?