User talk:68.201.144.11

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Your edits to Evolution

A lot of the stuff you're doing here is beneficial, and your effort is appreciated. However, you're also making a lot of parenthetical notes and adding other information that falls into a couple categories:

  • not necessary in light of the wikilinks already in the article: You do not need to provide a definition (or other explanation) for a wikilinked term when that term's article already provides the same information.
  • stretching the bounds of various wikipedia policies (esp. WP:NPOV, WP:V, WP:NOR, and WP:AWW): Please familiarize yourself with these policies. Factual claims should be either common knowledge or verifiable by reference to a notable, published source.

Thanks again for your work on this article. --N6 10:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I thought some of your edits were very well done, and others, well, fit into a few of the categories describe by N6. I have a couple of other suggestions. Please register, so you have a pseudonym by which we can chat with you. And second, participate in the discussion section Talk:Evolution to flesh out some of your ideas. Also, you can help discuss future changes to the article. Great job. Orangemarlin 13:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I think your edits look like those of someone who has a lot of knowledge in this area, and probably are beneficial. Can you include references and citations? Can you register for an account and log in, so we can know you as someone other than just a number? I think we would all welcome more knowledgable editors in this area. --Filll 15:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

First, let me say "thanks". You're doing a lot of good work. Having said that, I count about 40 edits all in a row down to the article this morning by you and one of them have an edit summary. That will make it difficult when/if people want to scroll back through the content to find when a particular change was made.

  • please* start adding these summaries. They really real prove very beneficial over the long run. Sometimes I've forgotten to add them and lived to regret it. Try not to forget.-Psychohistorian 15:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Seconding the above. Thank you for your contributions, but it would be helpful if you'd take some of this advice. When you make a long string of small edits with no summary, it's difficult for others to evaluate each individual change, and some may accidentally misinterpret your edits as vandalism. Keep in mind this article is watched and edited by a number of contributors, so substantial changes - or even a lot of smaller ones - may need to be discussed on Talk:Evolution first. Opabinia regalis 03:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)