User talk:Debchristiansen

Welcome!
Hello, Debchristiansen, 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 recent edits to the page Schoolcraft, Michigan have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other 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.

If you are stuck and looking for help, please see the guide for citing sources or come to the new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Here are a few other good links for newcomers:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or. Again, welcome. John from Idegon (talk) 19:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, Deb. Welcome again to Wikipedia.  The above links should help you navigate thru the process of editing the online encyclopedia.  I have completely removed the section on media in the Schoolcraft article as none of it is sourced.  It would be great if you could provide a reference to the changes you made and reinstate it.  The info is good, but it will be better with sources. When writing for an encyclopedia, we do not actually write about the subject of the article (in this case Schoolcraft); instead we write about what is written about the subject.  I'll leave a short explanation of how to add references below, along with a link to a Q&A forum for new editors where you can ask questions about how this is done.  It confused the dickens out of me when I first started doing this 6 years ago, and the Teahouse was my saving grace. John from Idegon (talk) 19:44, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * By the way, thanks for caring about the coverage of the south county area on Wikipedia. I lived in Vicksburg most of my life, until moving out here to Idegon in the early 2000's. John from Idegon (talk) 19:47, 5 October 2017 (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) 19:44, 5 October 2017 (UTC)


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