User talk:Cerie1914

Welcome to Wikipedia, Cerie1914! I'm Royal Autumn Crest, and I've been assigned as your mentor. Around 10% of new Wikipedia accounts receive a mentor randomly taken from a list of volunteers. It just means I'm here to help with anything you need! We need to have all kinds of people working together to create an online encyclopedia, so I'm glad you're here. Over time, you will figure out what you enjoy doing the most on Wikipedia.

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Again, welcome to Wikipedia!Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 17:32, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Royal Autumn Crest. Thank you for being a mentor.

I have a question about cleaning up my editing. I have searched for answers but I'm not using the right key words to find the solution. I have made many little changes to my posts for typing mistakes and wording. The question is, is there a way to clean up the history of the edits so it looks less cluttered with so many nitpicking changes? I don't want it to overshadow the edits made by others. Is it possible or do I have to be fully content with the final text before posting? Thank you in advance.- Cerie1914 Cerie1914 (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cerie1914: No, but you can preview your edits before you make them. Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 16:15, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Royal Autumn Crest:! I recommend you have a look at some of your mentee's contributions and further advise them on Wikipedia's policies. It's one thing to be bold, but if it's a new user without a clear grasp of how Wikipedia works we get:

• misquoting Wikipedia guidelines (an article about a ethno-cultural designation is not a biography of a living person).
• arbitrary removal of maintenance templates without addressing the issues they point to.
• adding unsourced content
• attributing claims to sources that do not make them (Minority Rights and Joshua Project says nothing about "culinary influence of the Khmers" being "present in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam due to the indigenous Khmer minorities still inhabiting those countries.")
• making changes that don't reflect what the sources say and not providing any references that back them up either (Van Esterik makes no mention of kuyteav)
• removing reliably sourced content ("Many spices in Khmer cuisine were introduced by the Indian merchants around the 2nd century. The Indian influence on cuisine among other aspects of Khmer culture was already noted by a Chinese visitor around 400 AD.") and replacing it with a wild unreferenced claim that "Khmer cuisine shares some similarities with Indian cuisine as they are both part of the Austroasiatic speaking group" which is very questionable given how diverse and regional Indian cuisine is and how many languages of different language families are spoken in India.
• repeatedly deleting words they are offended of, which just now almost escalated into an edit war (see the discussion that I started). –Turaids (talk) 10:43, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Turaids: Ok. You can always tell them that yourself as well, there will be times when I cannot respond quickly, this person is a new user so I would request that you modify your comments to mention just edits rather than the users themselves in any case. Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 16:15, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Royal Autumn Crest: at that point they had already dismissed my previous concerns with "you continue to interject on a culture you don’t know" and sadly it has only escalated from there (1 and 2). –Turaids (talk) 23:28, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Turaids: Ok. It can be escalated to Administrator's noticeboard. I can do that now. Cerie, I'd advise working with Turaids and other users as that is the expectation here on Wikipedia Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 18:05, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I had concerns before, but I now I'm aware of how WP operates. I'm fine with working with others and Turaids. I'm glad WP encourages new editors to be bold, especially this past few days, as it's the most effective way to learn how to navigate this space and is very informative. On my end, I see no need to escalate to the noticeboard. Cerie1914 (talk) 18:43, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 18:13, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]