User talk:Jjfaux

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Hello,, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or ask your question and then place  before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Eseymour 22:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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Fred Thompson
The information you added to Fred Thompson regarding the LA Times abortion lobbying article belongs on the main article dedicated to Fred Thompson controversies. I am removing it from the main Fred Thompson article; please add it to the "controversies" article (though I must warn you you'll probably face resistance because NewsBusters isn't a mainstream media source).

Also, thanks for including a reference to your source. However, you used the wrong format. Most articles use footnotes that are included with a specific type of code to allow automatic numbering and such. See this section of the policy on citing sources. Again, welcome to Wikipedia! Eseymour 22:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I also extend a welcome. Eseymour beat me to it. Please don't let your initial experience discourage you. One of Wikipedia's guifelines is assume good faith but sometimes editors seem to forget that. We see someone doing something wrong so we delete it without explanation. Your first attempts were deleted because they were in the wrong place and not properly referenced. You tried again and added a reference but in the wrong format so it was again deleted. It would have been helpful if some of the other editors had looked at your contribution record, seen that you were a newcomer and remembered, do not bite the newcomers.

Your contribution is appropriate to add to a section of the Fred Thompson controversies article rather than the Fred Thompson article as Eseymour pointed out. Be sure to use the right format for including a reference. Eseymour already pointed you toward a Wikipedia article that describes how to do it but the easiest way is to look at how other editors do it. When you edit a section to add your contribution, look at the other references. You'll see some cryptic looking text with angle brackets, the word "ref", square brackets, a url with http:, etc. Just copy how they did it but change the url and the descriptive text to be yours. Another way, which I prefer, uses the word "cite" inside curly brackets.

Another thing you might find helpful is to read the talk page for that article and add a section asking people for help. Explain that you are a newcomer, that you are trying to make a contribution, that you've been deleted, and would like some help in how to edit without being deleted. At the top of the talk page, next to the "edit this page" button, you will see a "+" button that will let you add a section to the talk page. You might try "Please don't bite me" as the title of your section. :)

If you have any questions, you could edit them right here on your talkpage, or put them on my talk page (or ESeymour's page). Sbowers3 01:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)