User talk:Foodie7

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Foodie7! Thank you for your contributions. I am Beeblebrox and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Beeblebrox (talk) 19:03, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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Regarding your email
It’s usually best to discuss these things on-wiki, so I’m replying here instead of by email. There are several issues with the edit you made:
 * It isn’t a reliable source by Wikipedia’s definition. It appears to be more of a blog about BBQ techniques. There are hundreds of such websites and few if any of them would qualify as reliable sources for an encyclopedia article.
 * I have now also read the linked article. It appears to have been written by someone not fluent in English and is just kind of a series of random observations about electric smokers, along with some very standard, poorly written recipes so it isn’t particularly helpful to the reader even as an external link as opposed to a reference.
 * The way you formatted it, using the “ref group” parameter made it render the words “Cooking 1” into the article but did not allow actual access to the link anyway. (this is a secondary concern to the above points and easily fixable by simply not using the “ref group” parameter)

Hope that helps. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:17, 31 July 2018 (UTC)