Jumpin63

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Hello, Jumpin63! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Iohannes Animosus (talk) 16:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

The page said that there were no external references. I was trying to point people to such an external reference that would be available through a good library. It was NOT promotional material - if you are the authority here (and as you are issuing warnings I guess you must be) maybe you would be so kind as to tell me how I should have gone about it? I could not edit the top line of the page to try and add a reference to Crockfords - which is the official definative list of Anglican Clergy in the United Kingdom and which confirms much of the biographical information on the page. (Not the book list but the year of Birth, date of Ordination, history of Parishes served in - date of retirement etc) Jumpin63 (talk) 20:36, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello! I checked out the Crockfords Clerical Directory site. This site requires registration or a paid subscription and sites like that shouldn't be included in the External links section of an article because they are of limited use for many (or most) readers. You could cite the Directory as a source of information when adding or confirming material to the article. How to do that is described here: WP:Citing sources. I hope I didn’t discourage you from editing Wikipedia. I added a welcome message on the top of your talk page with many useful links. --Iohannes Animosus (talk) 16:44, 29 August 2009 (UTC)