User talk:EggYolkLol

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Although some prefer welcoming newcomers with cookies, I find fruit to be a healthier alternative.

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Some more issues...

Hi EggYolkLol,

after my general greeting above, I want to address a few specific issues:

• I reset your edits in the section "Religion" of the article East Germany back to the state they had before – for several reasons. First, the changes you made to the graphic where in contradiction to the text next to the graphic, which had not changed. Secondly, you did not cite a source for your data. Thirdly, your data seems highly unlikely: Remember the second graphic shows religious affiliation in 1989, after over 40 years of communist rule. A 73% protestant affiliation is highly improbable, so you would definitely need to show a respectable source for that.
• I see you have started working on an article, or are expanding/revising a section of an existing article, on your user page: "Religion in Australia". A better place to do that is on your own sandbox, which is like a sub page of your user page. You can create any number of new ones. When your work is finished, you can then move or copy it to the main article namespace.
• So far, most of your contributions to articles have been reverted. This should not discourage you, but motivate you to learn how to improve your editing. For instance, an edit like this one cannot stand, because the reference cited is still from 2010. You would have to put in the harder work of referencing an actual new source from 2020, before you can change the numbers and the heading to 2020.

All the Best from --Sprachraum (talk) 19:19, 31 March 2021 (UTC)