User talk:Xnlump

Hello, Xnlump, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! DB1729^talk 00:18, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear DB1729, thank you for responding to me and I apologize I did not mean to violate any rules regarding posting information on a page. I'm honestly not sure what the proper procedure is thank you for the tips you gave me if there's any doubt about what I published please feel free to look at the Retrosheet. Org. Web page and you can look up my name and verify my info I promise I will not try to publish anything again that's out of bounds thank you again for your help xnlump Xnlump (talk) 02:45, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Regarding this recent edit of yours,[1] I noticed you attempted to add an item directly to a category page.

In Wikipedia, we do not add articles to a category by editing the category page, we add them by editing the individual articles' pages and linking the category from there. Please see Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization#How do I add an article to a category? For newer editors, it's understandably a counter-intuitive system.

Category pages are not intended to be exhaustive lists. They are navigation aids; merely groupings of related, existing English Wikipedia pages.

To categorize an article, first make sure it actually belongs to the category. Then, go to the article and add the category at the bottom of the page. To remove an article from a category, edit the article and remove the category. For instructions on how to do all this using VisualEditor, see Help:VisualEditor § Editing categories.

In this case, it appears the person you've tried to add to the category has no Wikipedia article. Since there is no article to categorize, what you are trying to do is currently impossible.

For further detailed information, see Help:Category and Wikipedia:Categorization. Let me know if you need any assistance or have any questions. Cheers! --DB1729^talk 00:34, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for reverting your recent experiment with the page Randolph, Massachusetts. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use your sandbox instead, as someone could see your edit before you revert it. Thank you. Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 23:29, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Discospinster. I noticed that in this edit to Bob Long, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ... discospinster _talk 21:29, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Bob Long, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you would like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Philipnelson99 (talk) 21:33, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article Robert C. Long has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Llacb47 (talk) 01:34, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]