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Hi Ieonine. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration. Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages. If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles. Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines. If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable. If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to discuss the matter on the relevant talk page. I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. -- Hipal ( talk) 02:24, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ieonine. Can you please indicate that you understand the policies mentioned above, especially WP:BLP and that disputes are to be addressed on article talk pages, not by edit warring? -- Hipal ( talk) 04:02, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
...none of the references look usable...If you aren't familiar enough with BLP to understand the importance of using only high-quality sources, then you are going to find your time on Wikipedia extremely frustrating.
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Hi, the edits you've been making are considered "cosmetic", meaning they make no difference to how the page appears to users. Removing unused fields in an infobox isn't very useful; they're not "broken", they don't display until a value is assigned, and they're doing no harm. (Learn more at WP:COSMETICBOT.) It's fine to make cosmetic edits while making other substantive edits. If you're looking for ways to contribute, check out WP:Task Center and check out any areas you might be interested in. Hope that helps! Schazjmd (talk) 22:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Morgan Freeman, 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. We don't remove infobox parameters merely because they're currently unused, and certainly not because one editor finds the fact we all die "morbid"; it only makes it harder when the day comes and disrupts building the encyclopedia. NebY ( talk) 23:13, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
The vast majority of BLPs do not include death parameters.citation needed NebY ( talk) 23:39, 20 May 2024 (UTC)