User talk:Vermilion bubble

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Happy editing! Fahads1982 (talk) 14:21, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Fahads1982! Vermilion bubble (talk) 03:48, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023

Hello, I'm Tacyarg. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Glorya Kaufman, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 22:39, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Tacyarg. I apologize for not adding a citation on over my added changes in Glorya Kaufman's article. I'll be going over through it again, and will make sure to include/add the citation where I got the information from. Thank you so much again for the heads up. Vermilion bubble (talk) 04:36, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks. Tacyarg (talk) 07:01, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Vermilion bubble! Your additions to Glorya Kaufman have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 17:18, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see. This is noted on my end. Thank you for the information and clarification Tacyarg, I appreciate it very much. Vermilion bubble (talk) 14:01, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please be careful with minor edits

Hello @Vermilion bubble and welcome to the World of Wikipedia!

I can see that you have been making minor grammatical changes to a large number of articles. Here are two items of feedback:

Please add an edit summary to your edits, e.g. "Improved grammar" or "Copyedit". This will help other editors to understand your action and it will avoid them being treated as Wikipedia:Vandalism.
Please make sure that your edits improve the accuracy and clarity of the article which you are editing.

Many of your edits achieve the second point, but not all. I don't want to put you off editing, so please regard this comment as guidance, not criticism.

Here are some examples:

- in Hazardous Waste, you have changed "added to the convention" into "added to the convention's list". Did you check if the convention has a list? I couldn't find this supported in the cited source. So it appears you may have reduced the accuracy of this article.

- in Occupational heat stress, you've added an a redundant acronym (CKD). Also an entire sentence in parentheses, containing a self link. You've also edited a sentence which had previously been tagged as "citation needed" - it would have been much more useful to find a relevant citation.

- in Health equity, you have changed an indefinite sentence into a definite sentence. This is a subtle change in meaning, which would need to be supported in the relevant source material.

Many of your other edits are good, but (in my opinion, which may not be supported by others), some of them increase the word count without adding clarity.

As I said, please dont be put off! Wikipedia is a strange microcosm, after 15 odd years I'm still learning how it works.

All the best, Bob (talk) 21:31, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bob, thank you so much for your insights and guidance. I'll do my best to keep these points in mind as I edit further. Thank you again very much. Vermilion bubble (talk) 04:17, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I'm actually very happy that someone gave me advice/constructive criticism. Your examples given will definitely be a great pillar of basis for me as I continue working on editing articles here on Wikipedia. Vermilion bubble (talk) 04:23, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]