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Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Thank you thank you!
[edit]Hi Cyberdog958,
I can't thank you for taking the time to review my Klamath AFA page and for providing encouraging, thorough feedback. Also for not chopping my head off with scathing comments or nuking my page entirely, which was my biggest fear. I've been wanting to become a wiki contributor for years, and as you know, learning the steps and code and collecting the references can take months of hard work, especially for new editors. Your encouraging tone is deeply appreciated, I'd heard horror stories from a couple of other educators about months of work getting removed. I'm grateful to have lucked onto a kind guide.
I don't know yet how to work with (or even see) all the flags/suggestions you pointed out—I don't even know if I'm putting this text comment to you in the right place. But I'm reading up on it now, and will follow through on all of your ideas. I may, for now, simply delete some sections of the page, just so that the page can be accepted in its simpler form, at least as a starting point. The new genetic sequencing information is hard to get, and expensive, and often requires paying to read the entire studies. I want to do another page on at least one other subspecies, and that research is even more costly. So for now, I'll shorten the page.
If I screw up or end up deleting something by mistake (my biggest fear), please let me know. Same goes for any additional tips or clarification you have. I want to get good at this.
Braintoniq Braintoniq (talk) 17:56, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have gone through and added citations in each of the places noted in the page. If I missed any or other citations are needed, let me know. Thank you again for this guidance. Braintoniq (talk) 22:56, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Braintoniq: No problem and I'm glad that I could provide a little guidance. Editing, and especially writing a new article, can be daunting but you are doing very well. It looks like the draft has already been accepted and it looks great now that you added those references. I'm sure your next article will be just as great. cyberdog958Talk 23:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
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