User talk:Joel19052011

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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:55, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Preview, preview, preview

I reverted your edit to Buckinghamshire because you made just too many mistakes. I could have just corrected them but you wouldn't learn anything that way. I can see that your intention was good, the problem was only your unfamiliarity with the tools. We've all been there.

The most important tool for a Wikipedia editor is the "preview" button, so you can see how it is going to look.

The second most important is the "view changes", so that you can verify that what you changed is actually what you intended to change. That way, you'd have spotted that you had put a citation at the top of the article and that you had broken words.

Please use your sandbox to practice, then come back and try again.

A couple of further points

1. only tag a change as "minor" if is a trivial correction of spelling etc. See policy WP: MINOR.
2. I didn't check if this applies but there is no need to hyperlink a word or phrase to another article more than once unless it is a long way further down a long article.

Welcome again to Wikipedia. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:55, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Citations needed

When you contribute material, as you did at London–Aylesbury line, it is critically important to provide supporting evidence (called a citation. Your personal recollection or "everybody knows" is not good enough. For now, I have tagged it with {{citation needed}} but your contribution will deleted sooner or later unless you provide the evidence that it is true. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:44, 18 April 2024 (UTC) I should have also said that finding that evidence is (IMO anyway) the fun part of Wikipedia. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:41, 18 April 2024 (UTC)