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Happy editing! Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:11, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

How to cite a source
One of Wikipedia's core policies is Verifiablity: it needs to be possible to check information in articles. A source needs to be published, but not necessarily on the Internet. As long as copies exist in libraries or archives that someone could find, that's good enough. It should be reliable in so far as it can back up what is being cited. It doesn't have to be "true": a source can reliably tell us that someone expressed a bad opinion, or that experts at one time believed something that we now know isn't true. What makes it reliable is that we can trust that it matches the statement we are making. Opinions or misconceptions are fine; the thing is to attribute it to the one responsible, and we need some reason why a good encyclopedia would even mention it. Most of the time we're only interested in solid facts supported by a broad consensus of experts on the subject.That's the stuff that matters. That's why verifiability is a policy. Of lesser importance are guidelines, such as the Manual of Style which has standards on various citation styles and formats. This stuff is important if you're polishing an article to perfection and trying to meet some general standard of consistency. But don't get caught up in citation formatting at the expense of verifiability: the important thing is to tell us the name of the publication, the article title or chapter, the author's name, the date, the page number, the url if it is online. You can put that in  tags or just stick it at the end of a sentence in parentheses. Someone else can come along later and format it to match whatever style that article is using. Using templates like Citation is helpful, but not critical.From there, you can learn more on the details of citing sources at the guideline page Citing sources. Help:Footnotes is a useful how-to guide that supplements those guidelines. Other information, and ways of asking for help, can be found at Help:Contents. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)