User talk:JBHester

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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! Dylan 620 (he/him · talk · edits) 04:44, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

August 2022
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, you may be blocked from editing. When I sent the above welcome message, I (1) had assumed that the background section you added to the The Giver of Stars article was your own original contribution, instead of having been copied from the Book Woman article, and (2) was not aware of your edits to the Book Woman article, which combined with your behavior on the Giver of Stars'' article, significantly skewed the overall content towards the latter. Please do not do this again. Neutrality is one of the core tenets of Wikipedia's content. Furthermore, please refrain from violating copyright, as nearly everything you had added to the Giver of Stars article contained text which appeared to have been copied from other sources.'' Dylan 620  (he/him · talk · edits) 05:21, 11 August 2022 (UTC)


 * This is very helpful, I'll make sure to stay within these guidelines. Thanks for pointing these out! JBHester (talk) 13:25, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Citing in the lead
Hi. We often don't need to, especially if the material is not contentious / not about a living person / etc, and if it is covered by a citation in the body text. It does vary from case to case, though, and it might be worth your while to have a look at MOS:LEADCITE which sets out its stall quite neatly. Hope this helps, cheers, DBaK (talk) 00:00, 13 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for this information!! JBHester (talk) 16:03, 16 August 2022 (UTC)