User talk:LaMarmora1854

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Hello, LaMarmora1854, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Radio Adelaide. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 23:23, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Laterthanyouthink,

thank you very much for reaching out to me as well as providing me with many useful information and different tips on how to best proceed with editing, writing, improving, expanding, etc. Wikipedia articles as a new member of the Wikipedia community. I greatly appreciate all of your advices and suggestions.

I would like to ask you whether is it necessary to sign not only my messages on talk pages (with the above-mentioned four tildes) but also all of my edits that I make on different Wikipedia articles (after the end of every edit, correction, upgrade, extension, etc. of the article, when the system asks me to briefly describe what exactly have I done). Should I add these four tildes also after every single edit that I make?

By the way, do you maybe know why my username (@LaMarmora1854) always appears in red text, while the usernames of many other Wikipedia users, including you (@Laterthanyouthink), appear in blue text (with a hyperlink - one is able to click on it)?

Thank you very much for all the useful information, and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

@LaMarmora1854 LaMarmora1854 (talk) 07:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi LaMarmora

No worries, I'm glad you found the info useful. It's actually an auto-generated panel which I invoked using a tool called WP:Twinkle, which you may find useful yourself one day once you have familiarised yourself with a bit more practice in editing.

To answer your first question, no, it is not necessary to sign your edits, as that is automated, as you will be able to see on the WP:PAGEHISTORY (which you can see via the Page tab above each article). However, we encourage writing a brief edit summary, so that other editors watching the page can easily see what has been changed and also to detect that it's not vandalism that needs checking and possible reversion.

Re your second question, it is because you haven't written anything on your user page - which is entirely optional - and any page which has no text on it shows up as a red link. This is a way of seeing whether or not an article exists on Wikipedia of that name. I rarely update my user page, although used to do so more, and should probably do a cleanup of it soon - but some people write lots about themselves and their work. It's entirely up to personal preference. I think it's probably worth writing something - even if only a couple of words - as users with redlinked user pages are assumed to be new users, and can act as a kind of flag to experienced editors to check edits in case it's a vandalism account. (You can still click on a red link, but it just takes you to a blank page.)

I hope that answers your questions! Also feel free to ask at the WP:VILLAGEPUMP any time. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:07, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. I just had a quick look at your contributions and see that you have given edit summaries for all of your changes - that is great. No need to outline exactly what is changed though, just a quick summary of what you did. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:10, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AI use

Your edits and replies on this talk page indicate that you may be using AI to construct revisions to articles. This is not inherently bad, but there are occasions where your "grammatical corrections" have altered the meaning of a sentence. Please indicate the mechanism by which you make grammatical alterations to articles. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:34, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Pbritti; thanks for reaching out to me and notifying me about that. I can assure you that I am not using any AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc.) in the editing of Wikipedia's articles. While I occasionally used Grammarly (language writing assistant software), I only have its basic version (not the PRO Version, which includes correcting grammar with the help of an AI similar to the one which is used by ChatGPT) at my disposal, and I am always careful before I publish changes that I make (I always double-check my corrections). However, from now on, I will be aware of this issue, which is why I am going to be even more careful when making any corrections related to articles' grammar, that can potentially be harmful, and alter the very meaning of a certain sentence. Best, ( LaMarmora1854 (talk) 16:51, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tools like Grammarly are AI, albeit rudimentary forms. Please remember to always verify that you are editing grammar in a way that does not alter meaning unless that meaning should be altered. Also, please note that the additiib of (~~~~) does not produce a signature in edit summaries, so you do not need to add it. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 17:54, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I will therefore be even more careful from now on. Apart from that, can a Wikipedia user get sanctioned or even restricted if he/she makes several such (and similar) mistakes? Also, I think that Wikipedia's system notified me about the importance of adding four tildes at the end of every description, in which one writes what changes were made in the article. However, if, as you said, this add does not automatically produce a signature in edit summaries, I won't be using it anymore. Is the case with the talk pages as well? Best, LaMarmora1854 (talk) 09:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @LaMarmora1854, I'm not Pbritti but I saw some of what you were doing!

First, welcome to Wikipedia and we hope you'll stay. I hope you're enjoying it so far.

A Wikipedia user can be sanctioned/restricted (see WP:BLOCKING) but those tend to be severe cases. If you're receptive to constructive criticism (which you are! You responded to your talk page!) then there shouldn't be reasons for such sanctions.

The four tildes are used in talk page messages or other cases where you reply to other users. They won't be present in edit summaries.

I think you're doing a good job so far, just be careful like Pbritti said. Happy editing. Staraction (talk | contribs) 07:25, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you @ someone in a discussion there's a higher chance they'll see the message! You can also use a template like Template:Ping. Staraction (talk | contribs) 07:29, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Staraction,

thank you very much for all the explanation and advice on how to use the four tildes. This has been something that I was wondering about for quite some time and I am truly glad that you assisted me with that.

Additionally, I would have one more question for you: for a couple of times, it happened to me that, after I edited some article on Wikipedia (I made a really good edit, with reliable sources and correct grammar, alongside updating information that have been waiting to be updated for long years), my edits and all the effort that I put into it were in vain, as some other users simply (and without any obvious reason) reverted that article to its previous version. Is there anything I can do to prevent this kind of actions?

As I mentioned, I was really careful to make high-quality edits that are grammatically correct and can be verified on reliable websites, which I included as citations.

Thank you in advance for all your help. LaMarmora1854 (talk) 17:29, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, do you have any examples of your edits being reverted? Send me some links and I'll take a look. Staraction (talk | contribs) 17:33, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, absolutely. Below, I am sending you the links to all the articles that I edited over the past few months and were reverted by other Wikipedia users (with no apparent reason or explanation given) shortly afterward.

Conservative People's Party of Estonia

Thank you very much for your help. LaMarmora1854 (talk) 19:41, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]