User talk:Blowtorch77

July 2007

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with the page Portland Hospital on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. • nancy • talk to me • 13:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Mortlake. Your edits do not appear to be sourced and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. • nancy • talk to me • 13:29, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mortlake

Hi there. The problem with your edit was that you deleted an established part of the article (which may or not have been factually accurate) and replaced it with a statement which was not verified (although could be verifiable). If you are going to make a substantive change then there are two things which it is helpful to do. Firstly citing a source is very important so that it can be seen that the change can be backed up otherwise people are likely to err on the side of caution and revert to the established text. This page is all about citations, best practice, how to create them etc and is probably worth a read. Secondly, and this possibly is not neccessary in this case, before making a major change you should propose the change and discuss it with other editors on the article's talk page. I have absolutely no doubt that your edits were made in good faith and I hope that I didn't give any other impression - the warnings are Wikipedia templates and sometimes they can be a bit impersonal and generic. I hope this helps and please don't hestitate to ask if you need any more advice or assistance. I will be watching this page so if you reply here I will see it. Kind regards. • nancy • talk to me • 16:22, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]