AveryG
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editYou can click on the last link to get to my talk page. --Umalee 21:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
That's fine. If you have any particular questions you want to ask, please do so! --Umalee 18:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
How to Cite Sources in an article
editAvery,
Please read:
Wikipedia:Citing sources and also Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style
You need to work on how you add information to Wikipedia.
I think you are doing great, but you have to figure out what an encyclopedia is, and what it is not. Step back and contimplate this for a while.
1) Don't "own" these articles. Contribute and don't get attached to them. You'll be happier.
2) If you want to contribute more editorial prose style, this is NOT the place.
3) In an encyclopedia we do not say things like:
- The Nile is a lovely river in Africa.
We say:
- The Nile is a river in Africa.
You can say:
- "A less pleasant commemoration of her was the naming of the slave ship."
This is editorial prose.
While "less pleasant" maybe 100% true, is it really encyclopedic? Go to the library and look at an encyclopedia, it is SHORT, CONCISE, and does not put in such POV material.
You may write information that is 100% accurate, and is good material, but does not belong here, in an encyclopedia.
Encyclopedias, are BLACK and WHITE (for the most part). It is not Live Planet, or something close to that.
A lot of people mis-understand what is needed here, including myself. I have to continuely check myself from editorializing and interjecting my own thoughts into my contributions, and still things seem to slip through. But, I do better if I give up "ownership" of the article, I don't take it to heart, don't take it personally. If I can stay back and remain objective, I seem to do a lot better at keeping "waffle words" out.
SEE: Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (This is a good one!)
I know that I am a better encyclopedia editor now, than I was when I first started here, in May of 2004. But I know that I can still improve even more than what I have done so far. The amount of information that I DON'T know keeps growing faster than the list of what I DO know.
Thanks, keep up the good work, improve, but keep it up.
Crandall Canyon Mine
editOnce you have read how to cite a source, go back and fix the one you added to the article Crandall Canyon Mine today.
- 1) Who wrote it? What person?
- 2) What is the title of the source?
- 3) Where was it published?
- 4) When was it published?
- 5) How do you find the source? (You can include the webpage with the title.)
- 6) When did you retrieve the information?
The best way to add something, lets say you want to add one sentence, like you did, is to find more sources to back up the first one that you found. The MORE you can find the better.
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