User talk:Cheyenneleconte

Welcome!
Hello, Cheyenneleconte, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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My reversion to Physical exercise
Hi, I see you have made an edit to the article Physical exercise. Thank you for your contribution. Most of the time, copied-and-pasted content is not accepted on Wikipedia because it is plagiarism, but in this case, the source is the US Government, for which all work is in the public domain (public domain copying guidelines). The first reason I reverted your contribution is because it was not written in an encyclopaedic tone (bullet points, very brief, violates some style guidelines such as MOS:YOU). Secondly, much of what has been inserted is already mentioned elsewhere in the article, in more depth, and as such, what you have pasted is redundant. Had it not been redundant, I would have fixed the style and syntax instead of removing it.

As you are a student editing, and not simply a passerby, I thought I would also explain in detail how to do references, instead of merely linking you to a guide. At the bare minimum, this is needed (and acceptable) in the article body, after a statement you want to reference: The URL is between the tags, and it is the full URL, with "http://". What would be more ideal is using a cite web template or similar, like: More about references and how to do them can be found at Help:Referencing for beginners. If you are not familiar with using code ("wikitext") like above, then there's always the option of using the Visual Editor.

I hope you enjoy contributing further, your contributions are valued.

--BurritoBazooka If you reply here, please add   to your message 03:54, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

PS: If you want to re-insert information from that source, you are welcome to do so, but it would be better if you would write your own sentences in an encyclopaedic style, supplementing what is already in the article. It's also acceptable to just add the reference without any additional content, next to existing content which the reference's source can support. Doing that is still a good way of contributing, because it improves verifiability of facts. --BurritoBazooka If you reply here, please add   to your message 03:58, 24 January 2017 (UTC)