User talk:Afiya27

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[edit] May 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Natural afro-hair, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Learn how wikipedia editing works by starting smaller... Dicklyon (talk) 06:56, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hair edits

Welcome again to Wikipedia. It's great to have experts around; the natural hair article was lacking in scientific background before. As you edit, it may help to study some featured articles, such as influenza, to see how they handle scientific writing and citations. There are tons of rules and guidelines for Wikipedia articles, some of which you just have to pick up as you go along. You might also want to check out Wikipedia:Writing better articles -- it would have been helpful to me as a new editor. Dreamyshade (talk) 14:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi again! Your recent work looks pretty good to me, but you might want to keep in mind that saving every few minutes kind of clutters up the revision history -- see the history of Natural afro-hair for an example. When you're making small changes, it's better to hit "show preview" and then make more changes based on the results, rather than saving the page each time (there's more about this at Help:Show preview). That isn't a huge deal, but it's just another Wikipedia custom. Also, try to type in an "edit summary" when saving a page (Help:Edit summary); this helps other editors figure out what you're doing at a glance. Dreamyshade (talk) 21:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)