Alvin Lee

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Hi... Thanks for your edits on United States. It is good to have words appearing in articles linked to other articles in Wikipedia. However, the guidelines for linking say that only the first instance of a word should be linked... for example, Alaska appears in the first paragraph and is linked there, so it doesn't need to be linked elsewhere in the article. Thanks! and Welcome! Wikipelli ^Talk 14:10, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipelli ^Talk

Hi again... I saw your linking in The Super Power (TVB). The goal of linking the word 'alien' in the first paragraph is good, but if you look at the link closely you'll see that it leads to what's called a 'disambiguation page'. This page is there because the word 'alien' can mean many different things. What you should do, is find the page that you really want the reader to go to when they click the word 'alien' and link to that. In this case, the link should look like this: [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]. What this will do is display the word 'alien' but link it to the article related to Extraterrestrial life. This prevents the reader from having to follow 2 different links.  :) Wikipelli ^Talk 14:16, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

You might also want to have a look at the Wikipedia help section on overlinking. Cheers! Wikipelli ^Talk 14:16, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hello and welcome! I edit Wikipedia too, under the username Wikipelli. Wikipedia is written by people like you and me, so thank you for taking the time to participate. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made to World War III with this edit, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions about editing, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Wikipelli ^Talk 14:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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Repopulate Ming Dynasty Maps???

Hi Alvin, did you by any chance make this map of the Ming dynasty in 1415???

https://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Ming_Dynasty_1415.png

I am writing to you because I am seeing the Czech guy's toxic map that depicted the Ming dynasty in 1580 everywhere across Wikipedia, in fact he has taken liberty and actively changed the French, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Vietnamese, and even Trad Chinese map of the Ming ALL to his map. This extreme persistent attempt at misrepresentation disturbs me greatly and I am wondering if you could have to power or you would spend some time to put your maps in all of those pages. As an academic who has to sit and only see his maps sitting there (everywhere) for two years is very frustrating.

Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mingdynastyavenger (talk • contribs) 10:54, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

I did not make that map, unfortunately. But I agree on what you said :) --Alvin Lee 00:34, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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