User talk:Dutchblueguard

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English Civil War
Hi!

You'll see I've reverted your edit to the English Civil War, and thought I'd better explain why. There were two issues. The first one is relatively minor, and is that the lead (the intro to an article) shouldn't contain information that's not in the main text. If you're adding something like this, it needs to go in the main body of the article first, and then - if its particularly significant - be summarised in the intro. The second reason though is that you didn't provide a source for this information. All info on the Wikipedia needs to be verifiable - you'll need to explain which book or article etc. the facts/interpretation came from. If you need any help with that, leave me a message here or on the talk page of the civil war article and I'll do my best to help. Cheers, Hchc2009 (talk) 18:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)