User talk:Timothy.M.Read
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Hello, Timothy.M.Read, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Melcous (talk) 12:23, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
April 2017[edit]
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your recent edit to Language MOOC, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 12:23, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
- If I have understood the video on using talk correctly, this should be indented...
- Many thanks Melcous for your guidance. This is the first time I have worked on Wikipedia and there is a lot to get your head around. In fact, it took me a while to realise that I talk by editing the page, just like any other page :-) Am I right in thinking that this page is private to me? You see my reply because I am replying to a message that you wrote?
- About the excessive links from the Language MOOC page: oops, sorry. I thought I had to link every occurrence of a word. Now I am confused. I went back to the page and the links are gone :-O Did you do this? It doesn't appear on the history page. What should I do? try again, but add fewer links?
- BTW, I added links to this page from other pages. There are six. So can this problem be deleted from the "multiple issues" box? And in a similar vane, with the links to other articles that I/you have added/left, the article also integrates in the encyclopedia OK now, doesn't it? So couldn't that point be removed as well?
- Thanks in advance for your patience.
- Timothy.M.Read (talk) 18:27, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Timothy, thanks for your reply and yes you have replied correctly (and well done on indenting!) There is a lot to get your head around at first, but there are plenty of help pages, and you can always ask others for assistance too. In response to your questions:
- Your talk page is not private, it can be seen by anyone just like any other page (although they would obviously have to have had a reason to go looking for it).
- No worries about the overlinking, I removed them - you should see my two edits as the last two in the page's edit history - and just kept the first one so you shouldn't need to do anything more on that.
- Because you have added links to the page from other pages, yes you can remove the "orphan" tag. Also the first two words of the article (as the title) should be in bold. It would be great if you could do those two things, but if you have problems (or if you have further questions), feel free to ask! Cheers, Melcous (talk) 23:16, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Melcous, thanks for your kind words. Have put the first two words in bold and also removed the "orphan" and "few links on the page" from multiple issues. Just two left to deal with, the hardest ones since I am not sure what is wrong. There is no original research, all the ideas come from published work. Perhaps more cites are needed. What do you think? Regarding the "personal reflection/essay", I need to look at other similar articles to see what needs to be changed. Thanks again.
- Timothy.M.Read (talk) 06:25, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
This page was deleted because you asked for it to be deleted, and you're the only author. See here. I've restored it. If you don't want pages like this to be deleted then please don't add templates asking for them to be deleted. Hut 8.5 06:38, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Timothy.M.Read. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, Draft:Language MOOC (L-MOOC).
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 07:06, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Many thanks for the warning. I have requested that the page be restored ([1]) and will get it finished. Timothy.M.Read (talk) 08:23, 10 February 2019 (UTC)