User talk:143.159.195.74

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Again, welcome! Pam D  12:59, 4 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, IP user. PamD has given you a lot of useful links, but hasn't explained clearly what was wrong with your edit to Dean Clough. I'm sure your edit was well intentioned, but there were several problems with it:
 * It was all in capitals. This is regarded as SHOUTING in most places on the internet, and isn't appropriate in Wikipedia articles.
 * It was in the wrong section: you put it in a section about Transport links
 * It was unreferenced. Since anybody may edit Wikipedia, it's important that all information in it can be found published somewhere; otherwise a reader has no way of checking that the information was correct, and hasn't been inserted - or changed - by somebody who was mistaken or malicious. And while it's not compulsory in most cases, there is a very strong preference that the source of any information is cited.
 * I'm not sure whether you are simply restating what was already in the History section, or claiming something slightly different (That says that the site was developed by John and his brother and partner, and the mills built by the company created by his son John and his brothers). If you are saying something different from what is already in the article, then you certainly need to cite a published source.
 * I think maybe what you intended to do was start a discussion about what is in the article: you may certainly do that, but the place to do it is not in the article itself, but on its talk page Talk:Dean Clough.
 * I hope you will not be put off by this experience, but will carry on helping us improve Wikipedia. --ColinFine (talk) 17:21, 4 January 2020 (UTC)