User talk:Fitzwilliam00

Hello Fitz, welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your question at my talk page. We do like to provide references for the information we put into articles. We are a long way from being perfect on this. You will find that some articles don't cite any sources, others cite a few, others cite a lot of differenet sources. For an example of a well-referenced article, please see George F. Kennan. As to why your particular addition to John Lewis Gaddis was reverted (removed), we have a policy of being somewhat generous with respect to biographies of living people. This policy is at WP:BLP. Basically, it says that we should really work hard to ensure we are providing a reputatble source for anything negative we say about a living person. To learn how to cite a source, please see WP:CITE. There are several styles. The one that is most favored by most editors is often called the style. You can read about it in detail at Footnotes. Basically, you put your addition to the article, then put those two tages right after the end of the sentence. Between the tags, you put the reference. There are templates that help you do this, like Cite news and Cite web. You also need to make a section called "References" down at/near the bottom of the article. In this section, you add on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Johntex\talk 13:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)