User talk:Maxwellrampage

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Happy editing! EditorGirlAL07 (talk) 20:18, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Dear Azelea,

Thanks a lot for your message! I love this website and am more than happy to do what I can, in my own tiny way, to make it even better. I look forward to being apart of this community. Please let me know if you have any questions and don't be afraid to say something if I make any rookie mistakes.

- Maxwell Maxwellrampage (talk) 19:07, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the copy edits, but it is important when copy editing on Wikipedia to maintain text-source integrity and ensure that citations are moved or copied so they continue to cite the information correctly. In a couple of instances, you split a long paragraph into two shorter paragraphs, leaving the citation at the end of the original paragraph only on the end of the second paragraph from your split, leaving the first paragraph from your split uncited. Since in this case, it was straightforward to know what should be cited on the new first paragraphs, I have added the citations. But you need to be vigilant when doing copyediting to avoid breaking the connection between text and its source in this way. When the sources are easily accessed online, by reading the source material, you can usually work out which sources (where there is more than one) do or don't need to be added to the new paragraphs you are creating. However, when the sources are off-line or behind a paywall (or any other reason you can't read the source for yourself), my advice is to copy that citation onto all paragraphs arising from the split or don't split the paragraph. Copyediting in the loose collaboration of Wikipedia is far more difficult than copyediting your own work, where you are familiar with the sources. Kerry (talk) 21:48, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

My bad, I'll be more careful next time with the sources. Thanks for clearing up those issues with your edits as well as the advice, the conventions for citations can be confusing and inconsistently applied; as I was always taught that you didn't have to put a new footnote in until you switch to another source even if you do a paragraph break. But in the case of Wikipedia, I can understand the need to be as clear as possible with attribution and what you said makes perfect sense. I will adhere to it in the future. Maxwellrampage (talk) 04:06, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

No worries. I could see that you were relatively new to Wikipedia and that you were trying to improve things, so I just wanted to explain the problem. Yeah, paragraphs (or sub-paragraph) tend to be the level at which we mostly do citation in Wikipedia because of the multi-user environment. Kerry (talk) 21:01, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Derailment, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A dates error. References show this error when one of the date-containing parameters is incorrectly formatted. Please edit the article to correct the date and ensure it is formatted to follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style's guidance on dates. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 16:10, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Fixed. Removed ordinal from date. Maxwellrampage (talk) 16:28, 2 February 2026 (UTC)