User talk:Ghostpants321

Welcome!

Hello, Ghostpants321, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your advice and help. I shall look at the links you have sent me. Thank you and have a good day. Ghostpants321 (talk) 02:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Your draft

I moved your draft back to your sandbox. Instead of creating a duplicate article, you need to make improvements to the existing sea rewilding article. If you need a refresher on how to do this, please review this training module or this video. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Please stop moving your sandbox to mainspace. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:36, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Making major changes to articles

Hi Ghostpants321! I saw you trying to make some improvements to sea rewilding and I wanted to give you some feedback and suggestions on how to successfully make your changes. Wikipedia has a number of policies and guidelines aimed at keeping the quality of articles as high as possible so there is definitely a bit of a learning curve.

• Make sure your edit summaries describe your changes. If you feel the need to refer people to something in your user pages, that might be a sign that you need to explain the edit more in the summary or start a discussion on the talk page. Nobody wants to read some random user page to understand an edit. (It's fine to link to relevant policies and guidelines in your edit summaries, of course.)
• Please read the guidelines on editing that Ian (Wiki Ed) shared with you, especially the editing introduction and the one on citations. I would also recommend reading reliable sources. More specifically, please don't source with wikis and other user-generated content (that includes Wikipedia itself) in your citations.
• It's good that you broke up your changes into multiple edits, but you might consider grouping together related edits such as the ones in the native sea birds section.
• There's no requirement to do so, but sometimes it can help to space out a series of major changes to an article over several days instead of doing them all at once. It can be a bit overwhelming to reviewers to have so much to review all at once.

Thanks and happy editing. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)