User talk:JellyBeanNinja

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Hello, JellyBeanNinja, 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 talk 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! Lcmortensen (mailbox) 06:37, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
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August 2012
Hello, I'm Lcmortensen. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Samantha Harrison, but you didn't provide a reliable source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 06:24, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Samantha Harrison
Hi. I've reverted some of your edits on the article Samantha Harrison again, because I simply can't find any references for them.

You're new here, so I'll explain simply: for every article, especially for articles about living people, you need to provide a source for a stated fact. Put it another way - if Samantha Harrison came along to her own Wikipedia article and found something on it not to be true about her, we could get into a lot of trouble (see libel). If we have referenced that fact from another reliable source (say, a newspaper article or a website), then we are not to blame for any untrue information because it verified from another source (even if the source is untrue about the fact).

Samantha being a member of the Southern Districts Hockey Club is a fact, and even though it was not referenced by you, a quick Google search by me took me to a New Zealand Herald article stating her to be so, so I added that article as a reference to the fact. However, other facts added do not return anything useful for a reference, so we can't state them - I can't find anything about going to Cambridge, or her parents' divorce (which the latter is also irrelavent information).

If you can find a source, feel free to re-add the information with the source. Citing sources has information on the basics of doing so.

Thanks Lcmortensen (mailbox) 22:20, 25 August 2012 (UTC)