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Latest comment: 1 year ago by Katylr in topic Explanation for reverting edits
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Explanation for reverting edits
[edit]@Katylr@Doug Weller I have reverted recent edits which:
- Introduced several references to Maria as "he", suggesting that the editor does not know English well enough to be writing for this enyclopedia
- Introduced some unsourced content
- "Sourced" other content to two websites apparently consulted in 2022, both of which are unavailable today; to a genealogical website, which I believe is not a WP:RS as it is user-contributed; and to one good site, the museum website
- Appeared to have involved copying from other websites, unacknowledged, as "[4]" and "[5]" appeared in a couple of the edits suggesting that the text had been copied from a site using footnotes
- Described Lai's birthplace as "Barbaric": possibly a mangled translation which should have been "extremely rural" or similar, but not at all the same. Again suggesting that this editor is not fluent in English.
- Left a garbled sentence "Maria Lai died in Cardedu, Province of Nuoro, on 16 April 2013 which Lai established in 2006" (yes, this sort of mistake is easy to make - but it suggests that the editor does not read their work carefully after editing)
- Introduced US spelling into an article which uses British English.
With all these problems it seemed best to revert to the last good version. I encourage Katylr to reply to the various posts on her talk pages and to change her editing practice, and perhaps to focus on editing a wikipedia in a language with which she is more familiar. Thanks. PamD 13:31, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for this. Doug Weller talk 13:40, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, I saw that the last article has been deleted. As you can see I'm new to wikipedia and I'm still in the learning process, first of all I familiarized myself with the basic wikipedia policies.
- You are right because at the moment I am randomly translating articles from Italian to English where most of the articles are with older information and data everything. I understand I make some mistakes, but I spend a lot of time to translate and improve wikipedia for this reason please don't undo the changes I make (or at least keep the paragraphs that are well referenced). Thank you! Katylr (talk) 13:08, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
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