User talk:Lsilvaal

Many Links Don't Work

The link to "There are currently fourteen defined language families in Peruvian territory, in addition to many more isolated and unclassified languages, such as Urarina.[3]" isn't a reliable reference. The reference links you to a website that sells books.

Most links/references do not work. Could have to do with the fact that they are PItalic texteruvian websites.

The article states "In addition to Spanish, Quechua and Aymara, there are many Amazonian languages such as Urarina,[2] Aguaruna and Peruvian Sign Language.", this needs to be edited because Peruvian Sign Language isn't only spoken in the Amazon. According to the PSL citation link, it is mostly spoken in Lima, the capital of Peru.

The graph on this article doesn't have a citation and also groups "unanswered" and "Deaf" together, they should be completely separate. This reference is underrepresented since the Deaf population has a language of their own.

It would be helpful if the sentence "A considerable number of languages were once spoken on the northern coast and in the northern Andes, but other than some in the northern highlands (Cajamarca, Inkawasi-Cañaris and Chachapoyas), all others have died out - Mochica is thought to have gone extinct in the 1950s." was cited and elaborated more on how or why "all others have died out".

Lsilvaal (talk) 19:33, 7 February 2019 (UTC)Lsilvaal (talk)

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Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration ‎

Hi! I saw that you were editing this page. It looks like your contributions were removed by another editor, Gandydancer, who posted an explanation to the article's talk page. Their comment was this:

I have removed this information which has been added by an editor that is new to WP. Lsilvaal, this Coast Guard funding information is not appropriate for this article about the Trump environmental policies.

Essentially, the content you added was specifically about the Coast Guard and didn't show how the Coast Guard pertains to the environmental policy. While yes, the CG does operate on the water and may go after people who pollute the water, they are not inherently an environmental group and this isn't their main purpose for functioning. If the bill were to have authorized funding for a special arm for the CG that does specifically this, then it would likely be something to add to the article. It's not that this is poorly written, it's just not the right article. Offhand I'd recommend that you add this content to History_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard#The_2010s, since it doesn't look like it's mentioned there.

On a related side note, political articles, especially those pertaining to the Trump administration, are typically watched more closely than others for several reasons, one being that politics tends to be a more controversial topic area on Wikipedia. What this means for editors in general is that when content is added to the article the material needs to be very carefully written and researched and if the material is removed, you need to be careful to avoid re-adding the material to the article. If the content is removed, you need to discuss the content's removal on the article's talk page. This is all generally an aside though and something I wanted to let you know about since you edited this specific article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:16, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

• No problem! It's what I'm here for. :) Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:59, 6 March 2019 (UTC)