User talk:213.67.188.129

October 2011
Hello and welcome! I edit Wikipedia too, under the username Trusilver. Wikipedia is written by people like you and me, so thank you for taking the time to participate. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made to Beijing Zoo with this edit, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions about editing, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Trusilver 20:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Citing in Wikipedia
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you have been editing several zoo articles with added text, but have not indicated where you got the information. One of the rules of Wikipedia is that all information needs to be verifiable, so please at least place the URL where you got the information in square brackets [ ] after the text that references that information. You can get more information on citing at WP:CITE. If you are getting the information by personal observation, this is specifically against Wikipedia policy as it constitutes original research (see WP:OR). If you are getting information from a Web site, please make sure you are rewriting it in your own words rather than just copying it, as copying is plagiarism and usually copyright violation as well. Don Lammers (talk) 10:33, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Please put the URL IN THE ARTICLE in square brackets [ ], not in the edit note. Edit notes go off the editors lists in a few days and thus are lost. If you put it in the article, someone can come by later and expand it, and the information will not get lost in hundreds of edit notes since it will be placed with the information it sites. Also, only editors see the edit notes, and citations are for the reader as well as the editor.


 * As stated before, you are causing a lot of extra work for a lot of people because your research turns out to be sloppy to begin with, and you are not following proper procedure. Please go back and put the map URLs in the articles (Copenhagen Zoo and Taipei Zoo) where they belong, and I will come by and expand them and hopefully have time to verify the additions. Otherwise I am going to have to just start reverting again on the basis that I don't have time to do anything else. Don Lammers (talk) 12:21, 19 October 2011 (UTC)