User talk:Blackwatchjenn

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Hello, Blackwatchjenn, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page Charles F. Brush High School have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Help request
Im sorry, i should never have tried to edit the page, i can show you where the resources are with the information i edited, i just cant figure out how to cite things, add links etc. It was just bugging me that parts of the Brush High School page are 10 years out of date! Blackwatchjenn (talk) 03:02, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi. I'll leave you instructions on how to cite things, but part of the problem is that the info you were correcting doesn't belong in the article in the first place. We don't mention, individual faculty members, we don't discuss achievements less than state or national championships and then only with independent references, and we don't discuss things that are of interest only to the staff, students and alumni of a school like the name of the marching band's program in 2014. This article is already a mess and your edits did nothing to improve it. John from Idegon (talk) 03:44, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello, John's advice on citing sources is excellent. I also think you should take a look at this page: WikiProject Schools – Article guidelines which contains guidelines about how to write about schools.  You can probably also find some help there from people who are experienced at improving articles about schools.  With their help and your interest, I'm sure you can fix the article up in no time.  If you have any further questions, just ask them here and I'll do my best to help.  I'll watch this page for a few days to see if you have any other questions. —&#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160;Bill W.&#160;&#160;  &#160;&#160; (Talk)&#160;&#160;(Contrib)&#160;&#160; (User:Wtwilson3) &#160;&#160;— 14:04, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 03:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


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