User talk:Djrdavid

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Djrdavid, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Gary King (talk) 16:33, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion at Grand Coulee Dam

Hi Djrdavid, I just reverted a bunch of your edits, but don't take it the wrong way -- please see my explanation at Talk:Grand Coulee Dam. We should probably restore the improvements; in case you're not aware, the full history is still available in the article history, so nothing is "gone for good."

It would be very helpful if you could use the edit summary field when editing, so that others can more easily understand what you're working on. Thanks for your contributions, and feel free to ask any questions here or on my talk page. -Pete (talk) 17:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] editing ettiquette & Coulee

Thank you for your contributions, especially those in your apparent area of expertise concerning the Columbia River. Your editing M.O. is causing some extra work for the Wikipedia servers—as well as the people who monitor the articles you edit. Here are the boilerplate notices for not entering an edit summary, and making lots of small edits in short succession:

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field - please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you.

We understand you are new, and we all remember what it was like to get the hang of things. Once you are monitoring articles, you'll understand these issues better.

There seems to be a small question of removal of citations from the article, and, I notice, at least one peculiar addition. Helpful additions are great, but removal of validated content, especially without good reason raises eyebrows. It appears you intended to improve Grand Coulee Dam, but the issues above made it difficult to isolate your additions while maintaining the previous content, so your changes were reverted, since that's the simplest way to restore a revision. User:Peteforsyth has been the most active editor on the Columbia articles recently, and has invited you to several discussions. You'll find he's hard working, very wikiliterate, intelligent, and shows excellent judgment. Thanks again. We deeply appreciate your effort. —EncMstr 03:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)