User talk:JamesEBinns

January 2016
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Liberal Democrats, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Jeppiz (talk) 20:46, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

My apologies, I am new to this. I was looking at the content of political parties in the UK on wikipedia, just out of curiosity. I noticed that the information on the Liberal Democrats is factually wrong. As a political science master, now beginning my PHd, there is nothing to suggest that the Liberal Democrats are a party of the 'centre' but rather the centre-left. How do I edit this with approval?


 * Welcome! You don't need to apologize, we all start out somewhere. One of the most important principles here is that we always use sources. In an extreme case, we would rather have a factual error if properly sourced than a true statement without sources. So the reason I undid your edit was not that I disagreed, but that it replaced a sourced claim with an unsourced one. So to answer your question, you need to find good sources that agree with what you want to say, and include them in your edits. Jeppiz (talk) 20:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, JamesEBinns, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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