User talk:Jamessalt12

Welcome!
Hello, Jamessalt12, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page Greater Miami Adventist Academy have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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 * Hi, James...I just want to add to the above. This is an encyclopedia.  You do not write in the first person (I, we) here.  Instead of "We offer sports...", it should be "sports offered are...".  There will never be a time when entering "I don't know" or even "unknown" is proper here.  If you don't know something, don't talk about it.  Finally, what you yourself know is not where content here comes from.  We ONLY include facts from already published sources.  You cannot just copy them, as that would be a violation of the original creator's copyright.  You read the source of your information, restate it in your own words, and then cite the source with a reference.  I will leave you instructions on how to do that, and also a link to a special page just for new editors to ask questions.  Glad you are here.  Good luck.  I have a talk page just like this one.  Feel free to drop me a note there if I can ever be of assistance. John from Idegon (talk) 22:44, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 22:45, 17 February 2015 (UTC)


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