User talk:MiddlesexHeritage

October 2020

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November 2020

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The lead section of an article

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. It may be useful to know, given how many of your recent edits seem to have been reverted by many different editors, what the function of an article's lead section is.

The lead is logically the last part of an article to be written, as it is purely a summary of the cited content of the main text, the body of the article. It is meant to cover all the sections of an article, at least briefly, and to consist of up to about four paragraphs, each summarizing a major theme of the article.

Thus it is always a mistake for the lead to contain any claimed fact that is either uncited in the body of the article, or worse not even present down there. Therefore, adding "new" claims straight into the lead is going to attract a lot of unwelcome attention from other editors! Perhaps this will go some way to explaining your recent experiences.

To make progress, you might like to glance at WP:CITE (for what's needed), WP:V (for why), and WP:REFB (for how to get started with a minimum of fuss).

All the best for the New Year. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:53, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

January 2021

Hi MiddlesexHeritage! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sciencefish (talk • contribs)

Mentioning historical counties

Adding "and in the historic County of Middlesex" to the very first sentence of an article goes against the MOS:LEADSENTENCE advice about not overloading that single introductory sentence. I'm not sure it's even relevant to the lead section at all. Also, yes, please don't mark edits as minor when they're not. --Lord Belbury (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

March 2021

Hi MiddlesexHeritage! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. You have marked the majority of your edits as minor and they are not. Sciencefish (talk) 09:41, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 2021

Hello, MiddlesexHeritage. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Staines Town F.C., you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Sciencefish (talk) 12:22, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]