User talk:Jjharper

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Hello, Jjharper, 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 recent edits to the page Natalie Cole did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always 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.

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May 2021
Hello, I'm FMSky. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Natalie Cole, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. FMSky (talk) 06:32, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Natalie Cole, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. FMSky (talk) 08:04, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

June 2021
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Natalie Cole, you may be blocked from editing. FMSky (talk) 10:48, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Welcome
I reverted one of your edits and wanted to reach out to you. I understand why you made it and it wasn't bad; it's just not in line with how wikipedia articles are written. The language you used was elegant and beautiful, just not encyclopedic. The other catch is everything has to have a source, and we have to maintain a Neutral Point of view. I wanted to share a pointer that might help you: Try to avoid updating the lead on articles, and expand the bodies of articles instead. A lot of people argue what should go in the lead vs the body of the article, but the reality is the lead of the article should be a summary, no more than 4 paragraphs or so, of the rest of the article. So, start with expanding the bodies of articles - you can add in whole paragraphs - then, adding something to the lead becomes more justified. Also feel free to check my user page, as I link to a bunch of the guidelines. On each of those pages, there are links to more guidelines. It helps to skim through them, though I'm constantly finding new guidelines and learning more that way. WP:NPOV, WP:RS, and WP:LEAD are the ones I mentioned in this comment, as something to get you started. Denaar (talk) 05:25, 22 September 2023 (UTC)