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Hello, Myspersson, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Gary Lineker. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Hi Myspersson, and thanks for your recent contributions. I noticed though, that you've been changing some links that go to redirects into links directly to the article. For example, in this edit: [1] you changed links from [[Afro-Honduran]] to [[Afro-Hondurans|Afro-Honduran]], [[Protestant]] to [[Protestantism|Protestant]], [[Mesoamerican]] to [[Mesoamerica]]n, and other similar changes, even though the redirects work fine. I see you've done that in several other articles too.

It's not necessary to change such redirect links just to avoid the redirect. Generally you should not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken. There is nothing wrong with a link that goes to a redirect instead of directly to a page. In many cases it's helpful to have such a link, and replacing it can actually be detrimental to Wikipedia. See WP:NOTBROKEN for more details.

It's also not necessary to change an existing piped link just to capitalize the first character, as you did in this edit: [2], changing [[regions of France|18 integral regions]] to [[Regions of France|18 integral regions]] and [[unitary state|unitary]] to [[Unitary state|unitary]]. Doing so is a waste of your time, because the first character of a link is not case-sensitive, see MOS:PIPE. It's also a waste of the time of other editors who may be checking your edits. Thanks for your understanding... --IamNotU (talk) 01:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I make the links clearer. There is no point in the link going through the redirect Mesoamerican instead of directly to Mesoamerica. In the cases where I capitalize the first letter, the link is not visible visually, so there is also no point in it saying regions of France and unitary state because the pages are called Regions of France and Unitary state. Myspersson (talk) 16:21, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Hi Myspersson! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

-- 15:18, Sunday, August 30, 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

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