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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me on my talk page. [[User:Ian (Wiki Ed)|Ian (Wiki Ed)]] ([[User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed)|talk]]) 13:50, 3 September 2025 (UTC)<!– Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org welcome –> |
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me on my talk page. [[User:Ian (Wiki Ed)|Ian (Wiki Ed)]] ([[User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed)|talk]]) 13:50, 3 September 2025 (UTC)<!– Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org welcome –> |
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== ”Tetramorium immigrans” == |
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I removed your additions to the ”[[Tetramorium immigrans]]” article because they could not be supported by the cited sources. Your text is now at [[User:Lertyclirast/Tetramorium immigrans]]. |
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Your first source is a [https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2022/06/22/theyre-not-coming-out-of-the-walls-tetramorium-immigrans-our-innocuous-worldwide-partner/ blog post and interview] ”with” Alexander Moss (not ”by” Alexander Moss, as you said). It doesn’t support the claim that it has {{tq|become one of the most common ant species you’ll find in many North American cities}}. That’s just not something it talks about. |
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The second source, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.02.003 Effects of urbanization–climate interactions on range expansion in the invasive European pavement ant] doesn’t report on the environment where the ants were collected, and uses satellite imagery to classify the areas. Nothing in those five sentences can be supported by this citation. |
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For Wikipedia, where every fact needs to be verifiable, saying something that’s not in the actual source it’s cited to, damages its accuracy and reliability. And since Wikipedia is so frequently copied, this sort of misattribution can be propagated quickly and deeply (all the more now, since AI tools are heavily trained on Wikipedia). |
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In addition, the tone of your writing is not appropriate for a Wikipedia article. I recommend you read pages 5-7 in the ”Editing Wikipedia” brochure that I’ve attached for a better sense of what the tone should be like. [[User:Ian (Wiki Ed)|Ian (Wiki Ed)]] ([[User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed)|talk]]) 22:21, 17 November 2025 (UTC) |
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Latest revision as of 22:21, 17 November 2025
Hello, Lertyclirast, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven’t already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia’s core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:50, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
I removed your additions to the Tetramorium immigrans article because they could not be supported by the cited sources. Your text is now at User:Lertyclirast/Tetramorium immigrans.
Your first source is a blog post and interview with Alexander Moss (not by Alexander Moss, as you said). It doesn’t support the claim that it has become one of the most common ant species you’ll find in many North American cities
. That’s just not something it talks about.
The second source, Effects of urbanization–climate interactions on range expansion in the invasive European pavement ant doesn’t report on the environment where the ants were collected, and uses satellite imagery to classify the areas. Nothing in those five sentences can be supported by this citation.
For Wikipedia, where every fact needs to be verifiable, saying something that’s not in the actual source it’s cited to, damages its accuracy and reliability. And since Wikipedia is so frequently copied, this sort of misattribution can be propagated quickly and deeply (all the more now, since AI tools are heavily trained on Wikipedia).
In addition, the tone of your writing is not appropriate for a Wikipedia article. I recommend you read pages 5-7 in the Editing Wikipedia brochure that I’ve attached for a better sense of what the tone should be like. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:21, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
