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LEVEL 2 VERIFIABILITY/NOR

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FINAL WARNING VERIFIABILITY/NOR

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LEVEL 1 CONTENT BLANKING/ CONTENT DELETION

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LEVEL 1 NON-CONSTRUCTIVE EDITS / VANDALISM

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LEVEL 2 VANDALISM

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LEVEL 3 VANDALISM

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FINAL WARNING VANDALISM

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LEVEL 1 EDITING TESTS

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MOVING UNCITED MATERIAL TO TALK PAGE   INCLUDE WP:BLP IF IT'S A BIO ARTICLE!

Uncited material in need of citations
I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:CS, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, et al. [ This diff] shows where it was in the article. SIGNATURE

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DECENT WRITING Also, please understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and should be written with care taken in adhering to basic principles of writing, such as spelling and punctuation.

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POP CULTURAL SYNTH Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with [LINK your edit to ], as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept uncited material or original research. Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. With regard to material about the content of narrative works that is evaluative, analytical or interpretive, the source must be a secondary source, and it must explicitly mention the information in relation to the work in question. Relying instead on personal observation or interpretation is referred to on Wikipedia as original research. One type of original research is the use of primary sources to form conclusions not explicitly in those sources, which is called synthesis.

In addition, trivial information that is not salient or relevant enough to be incorporated into the major sections of an article should not be included, as per WP:TRIVIA. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. SIGNATURE

LEVEL 1 NEUTRALITY / WP:NPOV

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In articles about works of fiction, material that is analytical or evaluative must come from secondary sources, which must be cited in the article. Thanks. SIGNATURE

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

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LEVEL 1 TALK PAGE ETIQUETTE

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GIANT EN DASH (from http://www.thebestschools.org/features/michael-shermer-interview/) ——

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FORMATTING TEXT IN COLOR Text

DISPLAY ARTICLE TITLE IN ITALICS

REASON Add this to an article, and give a reason where it says, "REASON". The article can be deleted if no one challenges it after seven days. If someone does remove the deletion template, then you have to *nominate* it for deletion using the procedure at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#How_to_nominate_a_single_page_for_deletion

DELETION NOMINATION 1. Add to the top of the article. Do not mark the edit as minor, and include in the edit summary: Afd: Nominated for deletion; see Articles for deletion/NominationName 2. Replace "NominationName" with the name of the article. 3. Save the edit, and then click on the article's "deletion discussion page" link in the resulting Afd box at the top of the article. 4. At that page, add this: ~

4. Replace PageName with the article name, Category with a letter from the list M, O, B, S, W, G, T, F, P and Why the page should be deleted with the reasons. cat=M Media and music cat=O Organization, corporation, or product cat=B Biographical cat=S Society topics cat=W Web or internet cat=G Games or sports cat=T Science and technology cat=F Fiction and the arts cat=P Places and transportation cat=I Indiscernible or unclassifiable topic cat=U Debate not yet sorted 5. Use an edit summary such as: Creating deletion discussion for PageName 6. Place ARTICLE NAME or similar on the talk pages of the article's creator and major contributors. 7. If the article has been nominated before, use instead of, and replace "NOMINATIONNAME" with the name of the page plus a note like "(2nd nomination)" for a second nomination, etc. See Template talk:Afdx for details.)

SPEEDY DELETION OF AN ARTICLE Place the above template, and provide a rationale in an edit summary.

DELETE MY PHOTO FROM THE COMMONS

COMIC BOOK DATABASE LINK TEMPLATE (CBDB)

COMMONS LINK WHEN IT'S THE ONLY LINK IN EL

COMIC CREATOR INFOBOX

PERSON INFOBOX

COMIC BOOK CITE TEMPLATE

TV EPISODE CITE

"Pantsfall". The Real World: Portland. Season 28. Episode 8. May 15, 2013. MTV.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE CITE Andersen, David; Witter, Lameen (17 February 2006). "Former Marine, Go Daddy CEO Talks About His Rise to Success". Marine Corps News. Retrieved 6 June 2006.

SINGLE AUTHOR BOOK CITATION TEMPLATE THIS

PRODUCES THIS: Mumford, David (1999), The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1358 (2nd expanded ed.), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 198, ISBN 354063293X

MULTIPLE AUTHOR BOOK CITATION THIS

PRODUCES THIS: Siegel, Larry J; Walsh, Brandon C. Juvenile Delinquency: The Core. Wadsworth Publishing. 2010. Page 50. Google Books. Retrieved May 15, 2012.

WEB CITE TEMPLATE

WEB CITE TEMPLATE FOR NON-TEMPLATED CITES (for Alan Sohn)

PERIODICAL CITE TEMPLATE

PROPOSED ARTICLE DELETION TAG reason

"NOT IN CITATION GIVEN" TAG

EPISODE TABLE

Licensing


ARTICLES WITH REFERENCES BUT NOT INLINE CITATIONS



-UNDER "other information", PUT FOR MARVEL OR DC CHARACTERS THE FOLLOWING: OR

-AFTER THE PIPE DIVIDER FOLLOWING "NON-FREE COMIC" IN THE LICENSING TAG, PUT Marvel Comics images OR DC Comics images. This will place the image in the more specific image category ("Marvel Comics images"" or "DC Comics images" instead of simply "Non-free comic images").

DISAMBIGUATION LINK AT TOP OF ARTICLES

DOUBLE IMAGE

SECONDARY NOTES This is the note to put in the body text, with a designated letter: This is how what to format in the Ref section, just above the tag: