User talk:Ian.waugh

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 07:31, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Please do not add material to text which is cited unless it is clearly within the source (and if a book, the page number needs to be the same (and shown in the citation). Citations need to follow the convention used in the article already and be 'inline', see WP:CITE. Edits should be explained in an edit summary as if you don't they are more likely to be reverted. Statements such as "As an egalitarian church, Mormons differ from ancient times in that they do not condone the practice of any one individual being regarded in higher esteem than another in the eyes of God." need sourcing with sources meeting our criteria at WP:RS and unless there are multiple sources saying this, you'd probably need to say who says this. Dougweller (talk) 07:34, 21 February 2012 (UTC)