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Hey, Awsomaw. Sorry, I didn't intend to ignore your message. If you're still interested, I'd be happy to help you out. Regards,  Swarm  talk  23:22, 1 November 2018 (UTC) :Hey Swarm, thanks. I deleted my message because I really didn't know if I had time for a mentorship; not sure what it implies. If you can help me though, if you could look through some of my past edits that would be great, I have many questions regarding them.

1. I don't really know if what I'm doing is procedurally correct and stuff, maybe I should go on the talk pages of the articles before making big formatting and copyedit changes? I thought those articles were small so I didn't think many people would care, but again, I'm not sure if that's procedurally correct.

2. And after copyediting, I thought I've finished so I just popped the copyedit tag right off of the article, should I keep it there for other people to review it first? not entirely sure.

3. And lastly, I've been trying to read the deletion policy pages, but it's really complicated and difficult to read, even the Help: one... is there an easier way to explain it? Thanks very much if you answer this Awsomaw (talk) 00:27, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm a big boy now! Awsomaw (talk) 18:08, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

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Sure, that's fine. It was a template that I've never had the time to research. It does meet criteria if anyone cares to make the article though. Awsomaw (talk) 23:51, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for the review. Awsomaw (talk) 21:25, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, I left a note on the nomination page, and then went to the nominator's talk page to leave a note there. I wonder why your note on his talk page has the header "DYK nomination"? Did you use the special script located just above the edit window:

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That will provide a subhead which includes the article name. Best, Yoninah (talk) 23:07, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Yoninah, thanks for the corrections. I didn't know initially see that that template could be expanded for some reason until later, after this review. Must've missed it somehow. Also thanks for the correction on the other DYK altblurb. Thought it wasn't that big of a change, but now I know. Awsomaw (talk) 23:16, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

It wasn't that big of a change, but now "Rwanda" is repeated twice in the hook. Please feel free to encourage nominators, especially new ones, to write really good hooks. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:29, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Got it! Awsomaw (talk) 00:31, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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Please see new note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 22:33, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Jon Ignatius Lumanog

Thanks for the feedback on this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jon_Ignatius_Lumanog

There are at least 2 published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject - 39 links in all - but additional links added from Anglican Relief and Development Fund, Anglican Church in North America, Cornell College and the Apostolic Communion of Anglican Churches. As well as citations in 2 books and The New York Times.

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Hi, if all you do is add a source or do some copyediting to get an article ready for the main page, you can go ahead and approve the nomination. But if you add a lot of sources, or do serious rewriting, you should add your name to the DYK co-creation credits and call for a new reviewer. Does that make sense? Yoninah (talk) 21:23, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah: It does. Just didn't know where the line is drawn, this explanation is clearer now. Thanks, Awsomaw (talk) 21:36, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Pastor Joseph Jenkins (draft)

@Awsomaw: Thank you so much for your generous feedback and thank you for taking the time to review my article so diligently. I will edit this according your recommendations and will inform when it is ready to review again. Welsh Hamlet (talk) 00:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

@Awsomaw: Hi again. I just made some amendments to my article in response to your notes. Hopefully it is now in a good condition, but please let me know if I need to make any additional edits. Many thanks Welsh Hamlet (talk) 06:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Awsomaw! I noticed you were an instrumental editor in the creation of TobyMac's The Elements album article. He's one of my favorite artists, and he recently came out with a new album, titled The Lost Demos. I'm not in a position to write this article myself, I've only written a couple an joined about a year ago. I found some sources:

• tobymac.com/the-lost-demos-ep-out-today/ News release on TobyMac's site
• www1.cbn.com/hollywoodinsight/tobymac-surprises-fans-lost-demos-EP CBN.com "TobyMac Surprises Fans with The Lost Demos EP
• twitter.com/tobymac/status/1258540536027213825?lang=en TobyMac's Twitter post about The Lost Demos

@Dswitz10734: I'd be happy to make this article, but it'd be during my Thanksgiving break, so in three weeks. If nobody gets to it by then, then I can do it. But currently I'm bogged down with schoolwork, and as you can tell from my contributions page, I haven't done any major edits in quite a few months. Awsomaw (talk) 20:16, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Awsomaw: Thank you for replying so soon! I'll see if I can find someone else to do it, and I can give you the link to the draft page in a few weeks. Thank you! Dswitz10734 (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

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===Ancient India===

In the Sushruta Samhita, a Sanskrit medical treatise written around the sixth century BCE, the ancient Indian physician Sushruta wrote the Nidána Sthána chapter on pathology theorizing that "leprosy, fever, consumption, diseases of the eye, and other infectious diseases spread from one person to another by sexual union, physical contact, eating together, sleeping together, sitting together, and the use of same clothes, garlands, and pastes." whether the citation is relevant or not. David dclork li (talk) 14:33, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Okay? And what do you want me to do? The only time I edited that article was to remove vandalism. I'm not familiar with its contents. Awsomaw (talk) 14:49, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I just wanted you to check the reference of the statement whether it is mentioned or not. David dclork li (talk) 14:51, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't think I'm going to check that for you. You can check it yourself and make a decision about this with your own judgment :). I'm not really an active editor, and this is not an article that I specialize in.Awsomaw (talk) 14:56, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you for the help

Hello Awsomaw, I've been pulling my hair all morning trying to figure out how to go back and add my edit summary to my change. I was in the process of explaing the copy/edit over to another page, when I hit the Return key, which seemed to publish the change instead of giving me a new paragraph :) I also tried to restore the content in order to start over, but as a new editor, I wasn't sure if I would mess it up more. So thank you for the notice and restoration. I will go back now and explain why I moved the sentence and its citations over to cyanobacteria, and why I felt it didn't belong on the Aphanizomenon flos-aquae page. I will also paste this response over at your talk page. I'm not sure if I sure respond both here and the talk page, so I'll do both. Again, thank you for this help. I'm excited to become a good member of the Wiki Editors. Braintoniq (talk) 18:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

@Braintoniq No worries! Thanks for the clarification. Happy editing :) Awsomaw (talk) 19:54, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

@AwsomawI appreciate a watchful eye, and to have met my first editor. Cheers. Braintoniq (talk) 20:13, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

@Braintoniq Good to meet you too. And also, I also sometimes forget to add an edit summary as well, and you can't change an edit summary after the fact, but I usually will go back to the page and add a space somewhere, and then write my edit summary that I forgot to write. That way people can still see why you did it. Awsomaw (talk) 00:55, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Great trick :) just add a space and comment on that! I will definite try that next time I mess up.

There are a number of incorrect, outdated or misleading citation links in the few pages that I have knowledge in. I suspect this is common across much of the sciences. As an editor, is the objective to edit these with as much gentleness as possible? I suppose there are occasional disagreements, and just explain as thoroughly as possible and cite, cite, cite. Braintoniq (talk) 01:40, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I would say that, generally speaking, you should be bold when editing. This does not necessarily preclude being gentle, but most pages lay dormant for years, so if you don't do it, no one will. Unless you are editing really popular topics that gets daily edits, the best strategy is just to go ahead and change and fix what you think needs to be fixed. Just always make sure to leave a reliable source and an edit summary.

If you make a really large change to an article, sometimes it is good to leave a note on the talk page. Then your edit summary can be something like "moving this section to another article, see talk page for more details." Even when I do this to medium-trafficked articles, usually no one cares or responds for years, so long as it makes sense.

And if you think that a major or significant change needs to be made on a really high-trafficked article, it might be good to start the discussion on the talk page. I generally don't touch those articles though. Hope this helps. Awsomaw (talk) 12:56, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for all of this. Onward! Braintoniq (talk) 16:37, 14 November 2024 (UTC)