January 2025

Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Greenland, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Please see MOS:OVERLINK for guidance on which articles should not normally be wikilinked. Donald Albury 21:32, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please explain to me how this has happened.
Churay613 Churay613 (talk) 21:54, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure of what you are asking. Which thing are you asking about? Donald Albury 00:19, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What I did wrong on Greenland.
Churay613 Churay613 (talk) 07:19, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing bad wrong. You wikilinked names that the Manual of Style says should normally not be linked. MOS:OVERLINK says,
In addition, major examples of the following categories should generally not be linked:
  • Countries (e.g., Brazil/Brazilian, Canada/Canadian, China/Chinese)
  • Geographic features (e.g., the Himalayas, Pacific Ocean, South America)
...
Wikipedia has many policies and guidelines, and it takes a while to gain familiarity with them (I've been here almost 20 years and still have to look things up). You made an edit that went against a guideline. I could have reverted the links and not posted to your talk page, but I did so to inform you of why I reverted you. You did nothing wrong since you did not know about that guideline. I corrected the edits, and informed you of the guideline. Nobody will hold any of that against you. Donald Albury 14:59, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for this information.
Churay613 Churay613 (talk) 20:32, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, is linking meat, cheese and vegetables fine on the sandwiches page?
If not I will undo the links.
Churay613 Churay613 (talk) 20:35, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Information icon Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. JacktheBrown (talk) 21:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I realised that the link was not relevant and I tried to revert it, but my app froze and did not go through.
Churay613 Churay613 (talk) 21:05, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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