Hello, I'm Asparagusus. An edit that you recently made to William Joseph Snelling seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 17:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

HI. What is going on. All of my edits have disappeared. Did you do this? Joe Gillens ( talk) 17:09, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello @ Joe Gillens. So sorry about that. I meant to just revert the edit where you seemed to add a test, but I rollbacked it instead, which means that I reverted all of your edits to that article. Apologies, I just got this permission and haven't figured it out completely. I reverted myself. Please continue to make edits to that article! —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 17:11, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

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Happy editing! Cheers, —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 17:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to William Joseph Snelling. Thank you. Broc ( talk) 17:22, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Hi. I have references for everything and hope to get all the references up in the next day or two. But many if not most references are up! What is "controversial"? Joe Gillens ( talk) 19:26, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

I just looked. I found exactly ONE unreferenced item, and it was so uncontroversial that I cannot imagine what your problem was. Joe Gillens ( talk) 19:31, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Section headings: Please don't use markup like <big>'''Return to Boston (1847-1848)'''</big>. Instead, please use == or === to mark the various levels of sections as described at WP:BADHEAD. This way, the software will take care of formatting the headings, building a table of contents, providing an "anchor" so Wikilinks can point to a particular section, and readers' accessibility software can handle the section in a way most appropriate for them. Thank you. _signed, Willondon ( talk) 18:23, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the tip! and the help! Joe Gillens ( talk) 19:28, 27 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Section headings again: There is a Manual of Style for Wikipedia editing. You will see at MOS:SECTIONCAPS that "sentence caps" are used for section headers, that is all letters are in lowercase, except the first one and the first letter of proper nouns. All-caps is strongly discouraged. Thanks. _signed, Willondon ( talk) 15:50, 2 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thank you. Joe Gillens ( talk) 15:52, 2 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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KylieTastic ( talk) 17:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello, Joe Gillens! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! KylieTastic ( talk) 17:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC) reply