User talk:Smilymecy
Welcome!
[edit]Hi Smilymecy! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.
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Happy editing! Femke (talk) 16:24, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Linking
[edit]Hello! I see you've been contributing to Wikipedia by adding links. A few tips
- Make sure you don't link the same word twice close to each other. Usually, a word should only be linked once in the lead, and once in the body of an article. For longer articles or more difficult words, you can link once per section.
- Common words don't need linking
- Sometimes you need to check the article you're linking to. In Africa, you linked the word gradually to gradual typing. That's a completely unrelated article.
Good luck with with the CfACP project :). —Femke 🐦 (talk) 16:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hi User:Smilymecy: even though you got this nice note from Femke, you have continued to do the linking in the wrong way, e.g. in your edits on 4 November here. I hope you take notice of what people write to you on your talk page! I was going to say the same thing that Femke said about the linking. EMsmile (talk) 21:28, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
October 2022
[edit]Please do not insert irrelevant citations into article, as you did in Temperature. (you added an article about dermatology)
You may have added this by accident. Please click 'review your changes' before publishing to prevert similar mistakes in the future. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:05, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
- You did the same in tropical cyclones and climate change. Please indicate if you've understood. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:08, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
[edit]Hello Smilymecy! Your additions to Climatology 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.
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Adding links to Australia
[edit]Hello there
Please stop adding unnecessary links to articles. There is no need to link common words or to link the same word everytime it appears. Please read the relevant policy. Thank you. WP:overlinking Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:45, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
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