User talk:Cardinaldave3

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Kentucky edits
I noticed you added 2021 population estimates to several articles about Kentucky. None of your edits are sourced. Could you please add a source to these edits, or revert them until you are able to locate one. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:39, 18 April 2022 (UTC)


 * If at the bottom I put that I used the same source that previous census data is from, is this sufficient? I modeled my edits after the ones from North Dakota's county articles, and this is the way they were configured.
 * Thanks for your help Cardinaldave3 (talk) 15:45, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I had another question as well; are only the four changes that were reverted not sourced properly? I know your wrote that they were all done incorrectly but was just curious as to why some were reverted and others not. Thank you once again for helping me. Cardinaldave3 (talk) 19:07, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * When you add text or data to Wikipedia, you need to support the edit with an inline citation. At Owsley County, Kentucky, for example, you added population data, and you cited it with this decade-old source.  It even says on the citation that it was archived on June 7, 2011.  How can a source from 2011 support an edit from 2021?  Please see WP:CITEWEB and Help:Referencing for beginners. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:32, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay thank you for the clarification Cardinaldave3 (talk) 00:34, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If you want to revert those edits for the time being until I can do the sourcing, that would be greatly appreciated. I am not sure how to do that all at once. Cardinaldave3 (talk) 02:39, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I am updating the Kentucky county pages to include this year's 2022 Census Vintage Population Estimates, I just updated one (Adair County, Kentucky) thus far so you could verify it is sourced correctly? if it is, I will update the rest. If not, please tell me what needs to change. Thanks for your help as always. Cardinaldave3 (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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Please stop
Hello, please stop making misconceived population changes to Kentucky places. You clearly don't understand what the various citation template parameters do, as shown by your edit to Henderson, Kentucky. It's better to have population updates not done at all than have them done wrongly in a bout of mass-editing. If you continue your current editing pattern, you may be blocked. Graham87 (talk) 19:30, 16 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I don't know what I am doing wrong, I have been doing them for years and using the same the same template for the citations and such evey time. If I am making a slight error, let me know what I am doing incorrectly. I have never once been accused of not knowing "what the various citation template parameters do." Please provide constructive feedback as what to fix. As I said, this is my third year editing articles to account for new census data, and I have been thanked by other editors for my contributions. So if there is truly something wrong do not hesittate to let me know. But the notion that I do not know what I am doing is nonsense. Cardinaldave3 (talk) 20:02, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Greetings! Looking at your edits, I see that you were adding the new population data tables to "archive-url" instead of "url." The "archive-url" parameter is for internet pages that have been archived using a web archiver such as the Wayback Machine. It's meant to preserve web pages as they exist on the internet today indefinitely. For example, here is an archived version of what espn.com looked like on March 23, 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060323151156/https://www.espn.com/
 * All this is to say that, in the future, place the new population data tables in the "url" parameter. Only use "archive-url" if you are also adding an archived version of the same link you included in "url." Hope this is helpful! Sincerely, Stedil (talk) 03:15, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Actually it's better to remove the old archive URL and archive date parameters, unless you want to make new ones. Graham87 (talk) 05:51, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you both, I appreciate the feedback! I will do so for updates in the future. Cardinaldave3 (talk) 08:57, 17 May 2024 (UTC)