User talk:Dbrad123

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Hi, Dbrad123. What can I help you with? Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:18, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:38, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Sulawesi flying fox

Dbrad123, I have reverted your recent changes to Sulawesi flying fox because they were non-constructive. You cannot return an article to a worse state just to retain your preferred version. The edits I made to your original material are necessary to bring the article to a level comparable with other species articles. This includes

• confirming to the heading and layout structure of such articles
• correct referencing; this means using the reference mark-up and not glueing anchors into the text by hand (and definitely not "personal communications"!)
• using concise, encyclopedic language without filler words, waffling, and inflated or faulty grammar

Be aware that the article is not meant to be a complete restatement of all text in some specific source. Adding buckets of ancillary details from the IUCN write-up is neither fitting nor desired; the aim is to summarize, then provide a reference for the reader to go look up details themselves, if they are interested.

If you wish to expand the article further, which you are heartily invited to do, please search out further sources containing additional material, and add that in a concise manner. There's need for "Description" and "Taxonomy" sections, for example, so you might look for information on those. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:09, 6 December 2016 (UTC)