User talk:Sheldon.andre

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:58, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've edited on Wikipedia so I'm kinda expanding. ;) Sheldon.andre (talk) 04:01, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A few important standards[edit]

Please see WD:L and WD:D. Labels are generally not supposed to be capitalized, and descriptions should not begin with an article or be capitalized. Also, it's usually a bad idea to change labels of widely used properties without getting consensus on the talk page first. --Yair rand (talk) 05:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Descriptions[edit]

Hi, thank you for adding and editing descriptions to items. But please see Help:Description for guidance on length and formatting (such as no periods/full stops at the end). Descriptions are to disambiguate identically named items, not to define an item so that it is identifiable from all items. Also please refrain from directly copying the lead section from Wikipedias as that is a license violation. Wikidata uses CC-0 while the Wikipedias use CC-BY-SA. Thanks. —Wylve (talk) 17:03, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]