User talk:JenifferHomes

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Latest comment: 9 years ago by Chuck Entz in topic Welcome
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Welcome[edit]

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The kind of user boxes you have on your global user page aren't allowed on Wiktionary (see WT:USER), so I created a dummy user page to block it out. Also: please read WT:BRAND before you try to add any more types of information that aren't allowed here. With all the spammers we have to deal with, we're especially sensitive about links to commercial sites. Sorry to throw all this negative stuff at you after you've only made two edits, but Wiktionary has very precise formatting and content requirements that are quite different from those of Wikipedia, and I thought it would be better to let you know up front rather than having you spend a lot of time creating content, only to have it all deleted or reverted. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 03:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)Reply