User talk:Floodplains

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Your recent edits to Willamette River have been undone. It seems your edits removed or "messed up" some references and added unsourced commentary. Please be more careful and always support your content additions with WP:reliable sources. Vsmith (talk) 12:13, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Willamette River
Your edits to the article have largely been removed, and will continue to be removed until you adjust your editing. This article is a Feature Class article, meaning it is top of the line in quality. That's not to say there is not room for improvement, but additions need to match the pre-existing quality, and yours do not. Your citations/footnotes need to conform to the existing style, as in a full citation, not just a URL. Also, footnotes go after the punctuation, not before.

Now, this is not a reflection of the content itself, which I have not reviewed to ensure it meets WP:UNDUE or other content policies, just that items added that reduce the writing quality will continue to be removed. There are various add-ins that can help you with the citation styles, or you can use the templates already in use in the article. See WP:REF and WP:CITE for further details on citations. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:06, 21 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Agreeing with Aboutmovies, I would add that it's customary to discuss proposed changes to a well-developed existing article on the article's associated talk page, in this case Talk:Willamette River. You may be right in suggesting that the article needs a recreation section, for example. If you make your suggestions on the talk page, editors who are interested in this article will have a chance to weigh in and collaborate. Finetooth (talk) 19:27, 21 January 2017 (UTC)