User talk:Johnftwa

May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This is particularly important when adding or changing any facts or figures and helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 22:25, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 20:27, 20 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I reverted your recent edits to Betty MacDonald because among other things, you reintroduced redlinks where I had repaired them; you reintroduced an inappropriate fansite as an external link, and you added back in highly tangential information about non-notable members of MacDonald's family. Plus you did all of this without an edit summary or any explanation on the Talk page.  I encourage you to discuss your edits there, or on my Talk page, prior to making them.  If you persist in making the same or similar unsound edits without discussing them, you risk being blocked from editing.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 20:32, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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 * I see that you are active in, and perhaps even an administrator or organizer of, the Betty MacDonald fansites found at (among other locations), bettymacdonald.net. Please see WP:FANSITE for an explanation why such links are not proper; and review WP:COI to see the reasons why you should not be the one adding those links in any case.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 20:57, 20 May 2010 (UTC)