User talk:Sluqa94

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:48, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sluqa94! Welcome to Wikipedia!! I noticed your recent edits to Escherichia coli. A couple of suggestions:

1. Your reference formatting is all messed up. Notice elsewhere in the article citations are clickable while yours are not. When we add references, we don't add the reference number, the software sorts that all out behind the scenes. Instead, if you're using visual editor, click on the "cite" button in the toolbar and follow the instructions to insert formatted citations. This is also mentioned in the citing your sources handout linked on your talk page, and you can find more at Help:Referencing for beginners.

2. In this edit you add a bunch of explanation about what a plasmid is. This probably isn't necessary in a page about E. coli (otherwise the page would read "bacteria are tiny little critters... Escherichia is a genus of... a genus is an artificial grouping of organisms... etc. etc. etc."). Instead, you can just make a wikilink to the page for plasmids by doing this: [[plasmid]] which shows up like this plasmid.

Due to those things, it's possible someone will come along and revert your edits. If that happens, don't fret! It happens. Especially when you're new. There's a lot of formatting and norms to learn around here and no one gets it right their first try.

That leads me to my biggest piece of advice: if you're really interested in improving the encyclopedia (and I hope you are!) then my suggestion would be to not start with pages like