Nikollegstorey17

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:37, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Edit Removal

Hi Nikolle. I see that you added some content to the Human Biology article and it was subsequently removed. Don't worry, I can still see what you did! The other editor removed it because it was "not encyclopedic" meaning it that your content was more like the introductory sentence to an essay that a summary of specific information. Also, your source was not highly authoritative; although Khan Academy does good summary work, Wikipedia prefers primary sources of literature and not second secondary sources (which summarize other works; Wikipedia itself is a secondary source). Don't be discouraged; it take some practice to learn the correct style. This is very different from writing a paper, which is normally what you are asked to do in a class. Good effort. Njclum (talk) 02:06, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Tamarins

Hi Nikollegstorey17, I moved the larger part of the new material you added to black tamarin to tamarin instead, as it is more suited to the article about the genus than about this single species. If you can, please provide the full citation for "Hershkovitz, 1977" in that article - the current citation is insufficient to allow readers to find the work. Cheers! -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:40, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Never mind, I found Hershkovitz (1977). You may want to double-check here [1] that this is the reference you intended. Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:45, 15 August 2016 (UTC)