User talk:Patchidoopy

Hello, Patchidoopy! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, 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

or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! --Icarus ^(Hi!) 23:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2008

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Graphite worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. El on ka 15:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Face, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Face was changed by Patchidoopy (u) (t) making a minor change adding "!!!" on 2008-07-30T23:14:29+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 23:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Answering your question

Hi Patchidoopy, I saw the question you left at Porcupine. If you have more questions about editing Wikipedia, you can always ask at the Wikipedia Help Desk. To help you find answers to common questions, though, I've left you a welcome template at the top of this page. It has links to many pages with a lot of information to help you become a productive and valued editor.

Regarding your question, yes, you should always try to have a reliable source for any information you add. The problem with "common knowledge" is that it can sometimes be wrong, and people can even have conflicting ideas that they both think are "common knowledge". Some simple statements don't need sources – for example "the sky is blue" and "in some parts of the world, it snows during the winter" would probably not need sources! But if you are going to say something like "The sky is blue because..." or "Last winter, more snow fell in Edinburgh than in any winter since 1927." then you'll have to provide a source. (Oh, and I just made up that bit about Edinburgh as an example, I have no clue if it's actually true. So I guess that illustrates why we always need sources, because otherwise no one knows if it's actually true or not!) --Icarus ^(Hi!) 23:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Masturbation addiction. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. NawlinWiki (talk) 18:51, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

September 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Tea has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 16:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Snow White has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Bullzeye^{(Ring for Service)} 09:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]