Memphismurdoch
August 2018
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Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person, Michael Alford (artist), but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 10:16, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
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Images
editSee wp:images. You will need to have made a certain number of edtis before you can upload an image. Images must be freely distributable (i.e. no copyright) to be uploaded onto Wikipedia. By uploading your own image, you would be releasing it under Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (which is somewhat similar to making it public domain) If the image is yours to release and it is a known work, you would need to open a ticket on commons:ORTS and supply evidence of ownership. To upload an image go to commons:Special:UploadWizard Jim1138 (talk) 09:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
The main reference[1] is 404. It is referenced 15 times or so. The link is: http://issuu.com/powershift/docs/dictionary_a Is there a replacement for that link?
The second reference links to http://grengds.com/static.php?content_id=40&shop_item_id=189 It is a sales website selling Alford's prints. That is getting close to being wp:Spam.
The primary reason I undid your edit is that the content you added to the biography section was not sourced. The whole biography section is not sourced. I added a section cleanup template {{BLP unsourced section}} Jim1138 (talk) 09:32, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
Referencing
editThe only way that Wikipedia has any credibility is that content cites a source. This is covered by Wikipedia's policy of wp:verifiability. For any significant content, wp:cite a wp:reliable source. See help:referencing for beginners. Try the wp:RefToolbar/2.0 it's on the default Wiki editor. It fills in common referencing wp:templates such as {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}}, and {{cite book}}. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:32, 18 August 2018 (UTC)