Greenawayr
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Greenawayr! Thank you for your contributions. I am Schwede66 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Ref errors
editHello, Richard. After you asked for help with the ref errors on Caroline Freeman, Maproom fixed it by removing the empty <ref></ref> pair you had introduced. Now you have introduced the same again, which John of Reading has removed. Please be careful. (I suspect you are using the referencing tool, which I am not familiar with, so I can't tell you exactly how to avoid this. But if you get this error, please edit the page and remove that sequence if you find it).
On another subject, almost every single piece of information in a Wikipedia article should be referenced inline to a reliable source. I suspect that your text derives entirely from the one source that you reference - you really need more than one source, as a subject discussed only in a single source may not meet the requirements for notability. --ColinFine (talk) 10:48, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
I see there are questions about the Caroline Freeman article. There's nothing wrong with it. I've given a reference to the history of Otago Girls' High School with a page reference. I'll try to get W. J. Gardner's Colonial cap and gown and find what he says. The book is off-site because of the earthquakes. I've given newspaper references. They are all available on Papers past.
Hello, again. The entry on Sir Robertson Stewart says that he spent time at Bottle Lake Hospital in Bromley.
Bottle Lake Hospital is not and never has been in Bromley. It is what became Burwood Hospital, Burwood, Christchurch. See F. O. Bennett's 1962 book, Hospital on the Avon.