User talk:Dryginweek
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January 2026
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Hello, I'm Kerry Raymond. Thank you for editing Wikipedia. I noticed that some of the linking you did at Mackay General Cemetery via the Add a Link structured task appears to have added an inappropriate link.
Please keep in mind that the link suggestions you are shown are machine-generated and will be wrong some of the time. Your role in the task is to identify which suggestions are correct and add only those links.
We value a small number of good edits over a larger number with more errors, so you are encouraged to edit slowly at a pace that makes you confident in your judgements. Editors who rush through the task and make many errors may be restricted.
If you have any questions about the Add a Link task, feel free to reply to ask me or to submit a question to your mentor. Thank you. Kerry (talk) 07:59, 18 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hello! Thank you very much for the feedback. I've just started editing, and I'll try to be more careful. Thank you and have a nice day! Dryginweek (talk) 17:52, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- You don't really have to tell us you are new, as most experienced contributors will realise this :-) There are lots of clues, e.g. your contribution list, your user name in red (meaning you haven't created a page to introduce yourself, which is not compulsory but is fairly common practice) and because the Add A Link task is an initiative that only targets new users, etc. But contributing to Wikipedia does over time does require a growing awareness of its many policies and processes and being told here is the way that information mostly gets communicated to new users (as reading that list is somewhat daunting -- I'm not sure I've read all of it myself and I have been on-wiki for 20 years!). Also don't be put off if your changes to an article are reverted, this is the normal process when something problematic or questionable is added to an article (it happens to all of us). First and foremost, we serve the readers, so ensuring what they see is right is very important. Also (apart from things like libel and hate speech where there are legal issues), a reverted change isn't lost for all time. It always remains in the article's history, from where it can be extracted, revised, and added back again. See here for every version of the Mackay General Cemetery article going back to its creation in 2016. You can see your version by clicking on the "time and date" link to the left of your user name. Personally I find the Add A Link suggestions somewhat problematic because it makes suggestions that seem very plausible but are often not correct. For example, with the Mackay General Cemetery, it was created in 1865 so at that time "Mackay region" (lowercase) just has the plain English meaning of Mackay and nearby. Whereas "Mackay Region" (uppercase!) refers to the local government area established in 2008 which has very precise boundaries and therefore not what is being discussed in relation to the establishment of the cemetery 100+ years earlier. The problem with Add A Link is that it tends to drop new users into articles about topics about which they don't have a lot of knowledge and so these kinds of subtle distinctions aren't obvious. Over time, most Wikipedia contributors tend to specialise, either in topics that they already know something about (e.g. Australian cricket teams, tropical fish in the Barrier Reef) or a common type of copy-editing task (e.g. spelling correction). I hope this explanation is helpful. Feel free to ask me if you have questions. You can do this here or you can do it on my User Talk page (click the "talk" link after my name). Kerry (talk) 04:24, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!) Dryginweek (talk) 09:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- You don't really have to tell us you are new, as most experienced contributors will realise this :-) There are lots of clues, e.g. your contribution list, your user name in red (meaning you haven't created a page to introduce yourself, which is not compulsory but is fairly common practice) and because the Add A Link task is an initiative that only targets new users, etc. But contributing to Wikipedia does over time does require a growing awareness of its many policies and processes and being told here is the way that information mostly gets communicated to new users (as reading that list is somewhat daunting -- I'm not sure I've read all of it myself and I have been on-wiki for 20 years!). Also don't be put off if your changes to an article are reverted, this is the normal process when something problematic or questionable is added to an article (it happens to all of us). First and foremost, we serve the readers, so ensuring what they see is right is very important. Also (apart from things like libel and hate speech where there are legal issues), a reverted change isn't lost for all time. It always remains in the article's history, from where it can be extracted, revised, and added back again. See here for every version of the Mackay General Cemetery article going back to its creation in 2016. You can see your version by clicking on the "time and date" link to the left of your user name. Personally I find the Add A Link suggestions somewhat problematic because it makes suggestions that seem very plausible but are often not correct. For example, with the Mackay General Cemetery, it was created in 1865 so at that time "Mackay region" (lowercase) just has the plain English meaning of Mackay and nearby. Whereas "Mackay Region" (uppercase!) refers to the local government area established in 2008 which has very precise boundaries and therefore not what is being discussed in relation to the establishment of the cemetery 100+ years earlier. The problem with Add A Link is that it tends to drop new users into articles about topics about which they don't have a lot of knowledge and so these kinds of subtle distinctions aren't obvious. Over time, most Wikipedia contributors tend to specialise, either in topics that they already know something about (e.g. Australian cricket teams, tropical fish in the Barrier Reef) or a common type of copy-editing task (e.g. spelling correction). I hope this explanation is helpful. Feel free to ask me if you have questions. You can do this here or you can do it on my User Talk page (click the "talk" link after my name). Kerry (talk) 04:24, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Ajam of Bahrain, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. CodeTalker (talk) 18:01, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- Good afternoon! Thank you for your comment, but since I've just started, please accept my apologies! I will take note of what you said. Have a nice day. Dryginweek (talk) 18:29, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of VidDay
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