User talk:Bbakkal

This user is a student editor in Indiana_University/Human_Dimensions_of_Global_Environmental_Change_(Spring_2020) .

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Hello, Bbakkal, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:19, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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It looks like you've figured out how to edit your sandbox. Is there anything else I can help you with? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:04, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback

Hi, I saw your request for feedback on my talk page. The edits that you have made to Beach cleaning so far all look acceptable. Good job using lots of citations to reliable sources! Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Beach cleaning

This is a collaborative project: please pay attention to what other editors say, and do NOT simply restore content without an explanation. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:51, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good articles

Hi there Bbakkal. As you may have seen, I recently reverted the good article nominations that you recently made to a number of articles. I did this because you have not yet contributed to those articles; as this page points out, "Anyone may nominate an article to be reviewed for GA, although it is preferable that nominators have contributed significantly to the article and are familiar with its subject and its cited sources. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination."

Although those nominations may have been premature, hopefully this does not discourage you from improving and nominating articles. If you are still interested, I suggest you start by picking one article to familiarize yourself with and work on. There are some helpful tips at the link above, and you should also feel free to ask any questions about the process here. --Usernameunique (talk) 06:50, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Citations in lead sections

Hi Bbakkal. I noticed that you added a lot of "citation needed" tags to the lead sections of articles. While Wikipedians differ as to whether citations should be in the lead section of an article or not, they aren't required, if the information is cited in the body of the article. Since the lead only summarizes the content of the article, everything in the lead section should be cited elsewhere in the article. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:15, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One other thing - don't change the spelling in an article from English to American English, as you did when you changed travelled to traveled. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:18, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A third thing - please stop linking lots of common words. As a relatively mild example, in Kota Kinabalu you linked population, city and town. That's just the kind of word that should NOT be linked in an article; see WP:OVERLINKING for more details. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:54, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]