User talk:James Loy

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Hello, James Loy, 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 discussion 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! Johnuniq (talk) 23:23, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
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Emma Darwin
Sorry but I have had to revert your edits at Emma Darwin. People write a lot of books and there is no point adding a list of them to articles (yes, some articles do have them, but they should be rare and for established books which are widely regarded as the leading sources in the field). Instead, if some useful and encyclopedic text can be added to the article, the book can be used as a reference. If you do that, do not worry about how to format the reference: just put all the information (author, title, publisher, edition, year published, page number) in brackets in the article, and someone will format it later. Johnuniq (talk) 23:23, 23 December 2011 (UTC)