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Thank you for your edits/ tips and advice

Hello,

Thank you for your recent edits to Renee Heath and your overall contributions to Wikipedia. I thought I'd give you some info on how to add better quality citations for your future editing, using WP:Bare URLs (e.g. http://abc.net.au/news-article-being-refernced/) isn't ideal as it provides much less information to the reader compared to a full citation. Here is an article with more information on how to add citations and here is a video on how to easily add citations to when editing.

Again, thank you for all of your contributions. Reply to this post or message me on my talk page should you have any questions, Merry Christmas - GA Melbourne (talk) 09:20, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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Neutrality, sourcing

Hi Ponyshine, thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

I'm a little concerned about some of them, particularly on political articles. For example, these edits to the Nicolle Flint article https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicolle_Flint&diff=1192524178&oldid=1152725986 introduce a section to speculate on Flint's future candidacy and synthesises two additional sources that don't mention her to include an observation about the trajectory of a political party. Another example is https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Brandis&diff=prev&oldid=1200354780 where you've included something very trivial where Brandis was caught calling members of the same political party mediocre. And the Peter Dutton edit making it abundantly clear it was a commercial decision. And the IPA edit changing Australian Government to Howard Government. I get it, I don't like the Liberals either, but you gotta keep it in check when building an encyclopedia. Cjhard (talk) 10:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Division of North Sydney Edits

The edits you made on the Division of North Sydney could probably remain https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Division_of_North_Sydney&oldid=1245319111 where you mention 'run dead'. The language could be considered slightly charged but with revision is essentially true. AuspolUpdater (talk) 05:26, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

November 2024

Please do not add or change content, as you did at 2024 AFL Women's season, 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. 4TheWynne (talk • contribs) 02:59, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

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