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Happy editing! HiLo48 (talk) 00:33, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Romani people
Hello, 86.149.177.95,

I noticed you've been editing at Romani people, and getting some reverts and other pushback, especially in the area of sourcing and references. For example, in this edit, where you changed some population figures by a few million. Please don't do that.

It's important to understand one of Wikipedia's core principles: WP:Verifiability. Everything written in an article has to be verifiable, which means, we cannot just write what we know (or think), we have to prove it, or at least, it has to be provable. The best way to do this, is to add citations to reliable sources with every edit you make that adds to, or changes the content of the article. You can find out more about this, at Help:Footnotes.

A good way to proceed, is to find your sources first: books, websites, magazines, whatever you're going to use to support your writing. Create citations for those sources (Google books or WorldCat may help; see also Wikipedia's reftag app), write up your content, and add it to the article along with your references at the same time. Don't forget the page number, if it's a book or magazine. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 01:13, 31 August 2019 (UTC)