User talk:DiggahR

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Hello, DiggahR, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: 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, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place  on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ (talk) 16:45, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi DiggahR, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to Vichy France. Unfortunately, I had to undo some of them, as they were not accompanied by a citation to a reliable source, which is crucial to establish WP:Verifiability of the material found in our online encyclopedia. I left some of your edits, including the one about provisions of the Armistice, but that was unsourced, and actually there is some confusing wording, or some misstatements there; I've tagged it citation needed for now, but please go back and fix it up, or that material will have to be removed as well.

Please don't be discouraged; this is normal for new editors, and it takes a while to learn the ropes around here. If you have any questions about this, or about anything at Wikipedia, feel free to ask me on my Talk page. You can also try the WP:Tea house, or the WP:Help desk. Mathglot (talk) 05:21, 29 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Same thing at Second law on the status of Jews, which I had to undo as well, as it contained unsourced material, and especially unsourced quotations which *always* require a citation. Do you need help with how to create a citation? Mathglot (talk) 05:56, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

France article
Can you have another look at your recent changes to France? There seems to be a problem there. (Search on page for "was set up in London.[72]")

In this series of edits, you dropped the reference to Paxton & Marrus (which is perhaps *the* classic work on the period) and left section #Contemporary period (1914–present) in monotype font, probably because of introducing blank spaces at the beginning of a new line or paragraph (the first character in a paragraph may not be a blank space). In addition, there's an unlinked, bracketed "[72]" in full-size font.

It's possible that the missing Paxton reference, and the "[72]", is because you were copying content out of the rendered page (i.e. the article page the way it looks to readers of Wikipedia) and then pasted that back into the editing window while you were editing. That is usually the reason for problems like having  in the wikicode of an article. Not sure what your intent was in that series of edits, but it may be easiest now just to revert back to revision 1035852025‎ of 02:06, 28 July 2021 by User:Zurkhardo, and redo your edit. If you're not sure how to do this, you can reply to me below by adding at the beginning of your message, and I'll be alerted to your message. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 05:42, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Copying or translating from other Wikipedia articles requires an attribution statement
This edit to Vichy anti-Jewish legislation concerning article 9 of the law regarding the French territories, appears to be a word-for-word translation from the lead of the French article fr:Lois sur le statut des Juifs du régime de Vichy. While it is permissible to copy from other Wikipedia articles in English, or to translate from French Wikipedia, all such edits must be accompanied by a formal declaration in the edit summary. You can use these words in the edit summary, for example: This is because of Wikipedia's licensing requirements. When copying or translating from other Wikipedia articles, please always add a statement like that in the edit summary. If you forget, you can go back and fix it up later; see WP:RIA for how to do that. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:15, 29 July 2021 (UTC)