User talk:Epster

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Hello, Epster, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Elsa Schiaparelli. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Mabalu (talk) 13:40, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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Elsa Schiaparelli edits
Setting aside whether or not Meryle Secrest's book is a reliable source (I personally have doubts, given that Secrest seemed to pretty much admit in an interview that she had no actual proof for some of her more major claims, but was speculating - which is tantamount to admitting she cannot be wholly relied on), I have had to revert your edits as you altered existing references and added in lots of information that was not properly cited. Please look at WP:Citing sources to check your sources - we can say what Secrest claims and states, but it must be correctly cited to her. We also need to avoid a lot of irrelevant detail particularly if unsourced.

One thing I need to say with emphasis - please don't change (or remove!) an existing citation in an article unless the cite is to a definitely unreliable source, or the statement is NOT supported by it - basically, a very good reason. Add an extra citation if you must, but don't change an existing one without a very good reason. Some of your editing also broke existing links to other articles, and unfortunately, your edits had to be reverted to fix all the damage caused. If you want to experiment, please use the WP:Sandbox to test things before you start changing articles. I would recommend looking specifically at how to cite sources and WP:Verifiability. Please do continue editing - I can see that you want to improve Wikipedia, so despite this setback, please don't be disheartened. Mabalu (talk) 14:01, 23 December 2014 (UTC)