Gerald T. Ahnert

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September 2018

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Butterfield Overland Mail, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 23:44, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

• Stop changing the title of the article. Otherwise, you risk being blocked. The references you added don't even support your name.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:32, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry about the misunderstanding. I am new, but now understand the rules. Thank you for your patients. Gerald T. Ahnert (talk) 16:46, 1 October 2018 (UTC)Gerald T. Ahnert

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A guide that explains how to properly add sections (among other things)

I noticed that you're adding (pseudo-)sections by bolding the title like this, which really doesn't create a new section.

As can be seen at User:Ian.thomson/Guide#Formatting, you add a section title by putting two equal signs on each side of the section title.

Other parts of the guide also explain some matters such as sourcing. Wikipedia largely avoids primary sources because they often require interpretation and Wikipedia does not use original research. Professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic secondary or tertiary sources are favored instead. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:55, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Primary and secondary sources

See Primary sources David notMD (talk) 03:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I just now read your Teahouse question and if you can find the actual 1869 newspaper on microfilm, you can use that as long as you document exactly where the article is so anyone could find it. It doesn't have to be online but that sure would help another person wishing to verify.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:33, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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