User talk:Jagenx

Hi I'm a long time member but very new to actually using the Wikipedia editing stuff. I noticed an error on a page, here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission

Now while I have not corrected the error because the page where the particular information was taken has since expired I've noticed, I have added a clarification to the paragraph underneath from the first of the two sources used, which has not expired. By the way this is in the "Health Concerns" section of the article. The paragraph I have entered is as follows

"The Earths natural geomagnetic field strength varies over the surface of the planet between 0.035 mT - 0.07 mT (35 µT - 70 µT or 0.35 G - 0.7 G) while the International Standard for the continuous exposure limit is set at 40 mT (40,000 µT or 400 G) for the general public.[20]". Now I did it on the fly as it was irritating me, but I quickly learned I don't know the protocol involved in editing, so I referenced the first of the two articles used originally as it is still a valid reference and correct for the new entry however I did not change the reference access date. Is this ok?

Also the whole reason I embarked on this journey is that the information provided originally in the paragraph above mine does not makes sense, in terms of the magnitudes of the values shown, I dare not correct the alleged errors as I have no idea what I am doing and also the alleged information is from an expired link and I could not verify. Independently of this missing citation the magnitudes simply cannot be possible so I'm guessing they are a typo as the natural magnetic field is many times the supposed unhealthy values entered which I have the issue with. Therefore I entered the clarification statement myself to ensure the discrepancy is self evident so readers can make their own judgments. So logically the previous paragraph needs to be amended but I don't know how or what the protocol for such action is on Wikipedia.

Any advice or help is welcome

What is this sign your posts business? Jagenx (talk) 15:23, 5 November 2014 (UTC)