User talk:T Brum

Welcome!

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

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

Handouts
Choosing an article to edit Editing an article • Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
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You can find answers to many student questions on our Q&A site, ask.wikiedu.org

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:03, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Take part in a survey

Hi T Brum

We're working to measure the value of Wikipedia in economic terms. We want to ask you some questions about how you value being able to edit Wikipedia.

Our survey should take about 10-15 minutes of your time. We hope that you will enjoy it and find the questions interesting. All answers will be kept strictly confidential and will be anonymized before the aggregate results are published. Regretfully, we can only accept responses from people who live in the US due to restrictions in our grant-based funding.

As a reward for your participation, we will randomly pick 1 out of every 5 participants and give them $25 worth of goods of their choice from the Wikipedia store (e.g. Wikipedia themed t-shirts). Note that we can only reward you if you are based in the US.

Click here to access the survey: https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXJcEhLKioNHuJv

Thanks

Avi

Researcher, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy --Avi gan (talk) 05:14, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give User:T Brum/sandbox a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Olivia Gatwood. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Jax 0677 (talk) 17:19, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

@T Brum: related to the above, you should review our training for how to move work out of the sandbox when editing an existing article. Specifically, we note, "Never copy and paste your draft over the entire article. Instead, edit small sections at a time, replacing only content that you've changed." Please go over this training again, as it will help you abide by Wikipedia policies for a smoother editing experience. Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:22, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Olivia Gatwood

Thanks for contributing to the article Olivia Gatwood. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). Thanks! P.S. If you need further help, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:36, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Please review this page of the training for information on how to properly add citations to articles. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Olivia Gatwood moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Olivia Gatwood, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 03:02, 14 December 2018 (UTC)