User talk:Ccolacion

This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/California_State_University,_Fullerton/Gender_and_Technoculture_(Fall_2017).
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Careless editing

Hallo and welcome to Wikipedia. Please take more care with your editing. When you added a whole lot of names to List of women psychologists in this edit you messed up the formatting of the table in several ways - the background changed, the text was bolded, etc. Tables are complicated. Rather than add a whole lot of entries all at once, the right thing to do would have been to add one woman, very carefully, and use "Preview" to see if the table still looked right. It didn't, so check the code for the adjacent entries and make sure that you're using identical code. Still not right? Then "Cancel" your edit and ask for help on the article talk page, your own talk page or somewhere else, rather than leave a messed-up table in a serious international encyclopedia. If you make an edit and save it, and then see that it's gone wrong, you can always revert yourself by clicking on "undo".

It's more important to edit accurately than to add lots of information all at once. Another approach would have been to copy the table into your own "sandbox" and experiment there with adding new lines to it, checking that the formatting was working right, and then either complete your edits and copy the revised table, or just use what you've learned and edit the "mainspace" version carefully using the code which works.

I don't know much about tables but I've managed to fix the formatting of this one by looking very carefully at the other entries and copying their code.

I see you're a student working on Wikipedia for a class. Other editors shouldn't have to spend time tidying up after students: this is a real, international, collaborative encyclopedia, not a student laboratory or playground. Please treat other editors with respect by working very carefully when you edit the encyclopedia. Thanks, and Happy Editing. PamD 22:16, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your explanation PamD! I'll make sure that the instructor passes this information along! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:38, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]