User talk:Belregard

January 2023

Hi Belregard! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Adventure game that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. You removed quite a significant amount of text from said article, and of those recent edits, a few were incorrectly marked as minor edits. You orphaned several named–reference tags in the process, which I shall fix for you. Your contributions are welcome, but please make sure you are editing accurately. Thank you. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 03:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Belregard. I've noticed that you have made recent strides to clean up the article Adventure game. This is not a warning, but advice based on observation. Please don't rely on bots to fix citations broken by content removal. I also noticed that you retyped an unsourced statement from the Deadline (video game) article. Without an inline citation, the claim reads as puffery (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch). I've trimmed the text down to just the essential information, and tagged the corresponding statement at the originating article. An article's lede does not usually need a citation if the claim is verified later in the body. In this case it's unsourced; likely correct, but propped up with puffery. Again, thank you very much for your continuing good work. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 23:56, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Noted and acknowledged. Which citations were broken? Belregard (talk) 02:07, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

See Special:PageHistory/Adventure game. For a Wikipedia overview of page history, see Help:Page history. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 02:41, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

I will try to be more aware of not removing citations solely dependent on content I remove. Belregard (talk) 02:48, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Further editing the Adventure Games page, I was attempting to remove a reference, but it appears I am unsure of how to do so. I clicked on the "Edit Source" link next to references, but upon searching for the source to remove, I was unable to find it. Am I missing something? Belregard (talk) 19:10, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Which reference are you trying to remove from which section (using wiki markup editing)? If a <ref> tag is defined with the name= parameter elsewhere in the article, then you may only see the tag in the section you were looking at, and not the citation template assigned to it. In such a circumstance, it's better to view the entire article's source and use your browser's "Find" feature, rather than just the section you wish to change. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 17:20, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Apologies

My apologies, I will be mindful in the future. Belregard (talk) 04:01, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

You seem to be new here. Rather than creating a new section, you can reply to a comment by indentation. Write your reply directly below the appropriate comment, and precede it with a colon, e.g. : Your reply. ~~~~, adding more colons as necessary. If you need help, you can contact another editor such as myself, or add {{Help me}} at the top of a new section on your talk page (see instructions in the template doc). The best way to learn is by doing, and many editors are here to help. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 04:41, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Belregard (talk) 05:14, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

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