User talk:Gcaplett

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Hello, Gcaplett, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!  Imzadi 1979  →   02:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Your second edit to County Road 595 (Marquette County, Michigan) has to be removed for now. We need a source for the "appears to be working against its own cause" opinion. Wikipedia and Wikipedians can't create their own opinions; instead we have to restate the opinions and conclusions that appear in reliable sources. Now if a reporter for The Mining Journal made that statement, or words to that effect, we could have repeated it. Wikipedia is a tertiary source that repeats the work of others in secondary sources and does not engage in its own original research.
 * Going along with that, we also have to stick to sources that are know to be reliable. We can't use items that are self-published, such as blogs, except under a set of limited circumstances. I've kept this article sticking to just the information reported in The Mining Journal, the websites of WLUC-TV or WBUP-TV, or other news sources. The only citations not from the news media are the maps from the MCRC or MDOT needed to substantiate the length and route of the proposed road or the owners of the rail lines in the area. The other non-news sources support non-controversial information to clarify the difference between the road commission and the county commission.
 * From a purely stylistic point, we don't link words or phrases in the middle of an article to an external website. Rather, if we are citing some information to a source, we put that citation in a footnote or parenthetical reference. The actual link to the external webpage then appears in the References, Works cited, or External links sections at the end of the article.
 * My personal goal is that when the road is finally built or finally cancelled, the article can be updated to that effect. Then it can be nominated for review and promotion through our Good Article Nominates and Featured Article Candidates processes. The second one has stringent sourcing requirements, using only "high-quality reliable sources".  Imzadi 1979  →   18:23, 12 November 2012 (UTC)