User talk:WordGoblin

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Happy editing! -- Toddy1 (talk) 02:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

September 2020

Hello, I'm Toddy1. An edit that you recently made to Badimalika Temple removed the citations. I noticed that in August you made an edit to List of hill stations in Malaysia‎ that did the same thing. This is not OK. All material in Wikipedia mainspace, including everything in articles, lists and captions, must be verifiable. All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. Therefore articles needs citations, and removing them is destructive.-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:38, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Toddy1. An edit that you recently made to Barelvi seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:38, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia policy is to use "straight" apostrophes and quotation marks, not “curly” ones. (See MOS:CURLY.) The edit you made to Anaa (TV series) changed straight apostrophes to curly ones and has therefore been reverted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:44, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In your edit to Al Jazeera controversies and criticism you removed necessary punctuation marks. It has been reverted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:46, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In your edit to Montazur Rahman Akbar you deleted the space between the citation and the word that followed it. This made it look like this:

Bangladesh.^[1]He

There needs to be space before "He".-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:50, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In your edit to Akola you deleted non-breaking spaces. Non-breaking spaces are space characters that prevents automatic line breaks at their position. (See Non-breaking space.) Your edit have been reverted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 02:55, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page The Bond of 1844‎, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. -- Toddy1 (talk) 08:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Kim Bingham‎, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Replacing the ^{[citation needed]} template with [<nowiki/>citation needed] was unhelpful.-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop deleting citations from articles like you did in Nenad Bjeković and Kim Bingham‎. Wikipedia has a policy WP:VERIFY that means that articles need citations for statements. So removing the citations is destructive.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:02, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop changing straight quotation marks to curly one as you did in Kim Bingham‎. Wikipedia has a policy MOS:CURLY that says that articles must have "straight" apostrophes and quotation marks, not “curly” ones.-- Toddy1 (talk) 09:02, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 2020

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Jean-Paul Jauffret, you may be blocked from editing.

At Special:Diff/981981562, you marked your edit minor and summarized your edit as 'punctuation and grammar in the "Life and career" section'. Neither is true. You made one synonym substitution and the rest was the unexplained (and likely indefensible) removal of over 2KB of citations – definitely not WP:MINOR. Please pay attention to the many warnings above. If you don't understand, seek help at the help desk, but do not continue to do what you've been doing.

—[AlanM1 (talk)]— 13:31, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Alan, Thank you for sharing your feedback.

I will be extremely careful moving forward and have made a note of all your feedback as well as Toddy's previous feedback. I'm new to Wikipedia and didn't realize that I was deleting citations and other important content. Once again, I'm really sorry for the trouble and will do my best to ensure that such issues do not happen again.

Thank you for your guidance. Warm Regards,WordGoblin (talk) 17:09, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Thanks. Cheers. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 19:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Becoming Young (November 12)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Curbon7 was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of music-related topics). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Becoming Young and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Becoming Young, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Curbon7 (talk) 23:21, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, WordGoblin! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Curbon7 (talk) 23:21, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Becoming Young has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Becoming Young. Thanks! Curbon7 (talk) 23:22, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Becoming Young

Hello, WordGoblin. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Becoming Young, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 00:01, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Becoming Young

Hello, WordGoblin. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Becoming Young".

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 plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:22, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]