User talk:MrMarky1982

Welcome, MrMarky1982!

Welcome to Wikipedia, MrMarky1982! I'm Liance, and I've been assigned as your mentor. About half of new Wikipedia accounts receive a mentor chosen randomly from a list of volunteers. It just means I'm here to help with anything you need! We need to have all kinds of people working together to create an online encyclopedia, so I'm glad you're here. Over time, you will figure out what you enjoy doing the most on Wikipedia.

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Again, welcome to Wikipedia! ~Liance^talk 16:28, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi There. Thanks for reaching out. My main area of expertise is computers and internet so i will most likely lean towards this. one of the things i couldn't work out was how to create and new talk message. I commented on something on the search engine optimization page but i ended up replying to a comment rather than adding a new comment of my own because I didn't really understand how to do it. Will i find that in the tutorials? MrMarky1982 (talk) 08:31, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the top right of a talk page, there should be an option for "New section" or "Add topic". It should create a new message if you click on it. Hope this helps. ~Liance^talk 12:42, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's very useful. if i edit something like i did the graphic cards page and somebody reverts those changes is there an option to discuss that or do I just have to accept that my edits were reverted? MrMarky1982 (talk) 14:30, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. If you are able to see the reversion history, I would leave a talk message to the editor who removed your change(s) and ask for their rationale/advice. I would avoid directly re-reverting them since that could easily lead to edit warring. ~Liance^talk 20:50, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use of bold

Hello @MrMarky1982 and welcome! Looks like you're getting straight into things, really nice.

Your new lede for Waste-to-energy looks good. You removed the bold for the main terms, and used it for the links. My understanding based on the manual of style Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting is that these uses of bold should be inverted. DougInAMugtalk 10:17, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out. Do you want me to take the bold off the links? MrMarky1982 (talk) 10:19, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the links should not be bold. Additionally, "Waste-to-energy (WtE)" and "energy-from-waste (EfW)" should be bold. These points are outlined in the link to the manual of style in my initial post. DougInAMugtalk 09:04, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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