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Reference errors on 1 December
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Copyright
Hi Jolean.

In this edit you copied content from this website and pasted it into Wikipedia. Please see the note below.

Hello Joleanwiley16, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 16:22, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Complete citations
Hi Jolean

In this dif you added a citation to "Title: 1 New York Plaza, Publication Date:2005-2016, Retrieved Information From: www.earthinpictures.com". That is not enough information to allow someone else to verify the content you added to Wikipedia. The actual website was https://www.earthinpictures.com/world/usa/new_york/1_new_york_plaza.html

Some people in Wikipedia get very fussy about the format of citations and as you continue here you will figure all that out. The key thing for you to know now, while you are getting started, is that the citation needs to be specific and show exactly where the information came from. So if you find something online, please use the full website - https://www.earthinpictures.com/world/usa/new_york/1_new_york_plaza.html - not just the main site like www.earthinpictures.com.

You made the same kind of mistake here where you added a citation to: "Author: See Yang, Retrieved information: www.ehow.com". Jytdog (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

There is a very easy and fast way to do citations...

You will notice that when you are in an edit window, that up at the top there is a toolbar. On the right, it says "Cite" and there is a little triangle next to it. If you click the triangle, another menu appears below. On the left side of the new menu bar, you will see "Templates". If you select (for example) "Cite web", you can copy the website address into the "URL" field, click the little magnifying glass next to the URL field, the whole thing will auto-fill and if you then click "insert" it will insert the following (I changed the ref tags so this is visible:



There is also a field there for "access date" with a little calendar by it, and if you click the calendar it autofills the date. If you do the above, and do that, it looks like this:



People often want to know how current the information is, so it is also useful to include any date on the website itself (if there is no date, by the way, it is a good sign that the webpage you are looking at is not a good source, and you ~probably~ shouldn't use it it all. For example, there is no date on https://www.earthinpictures.com/world/usa/new_york/1_new_york_plaza.htm but its says things like "One New York Plaza is easily accessible from 13 local subway lines, ferries, and heliport."   As of date was that true?  Is that still true today?  We don't know.  They could have posted that in 2005 and in the 11 years (!) since then it now has no heliport.   See what I mean?

But if there is a date, there is a field for that in the template, that you can see if you click the "Show/hide extra fields" button.

There are similar templates for newspapers, journal articles, etc. Handy tool. Jytdog (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Real citations
In this diff you added a citation to Author: Attorney Gordon Johnson, Date of Publication; 2002-2015, Retrieved Information:www.wating.com/neurosurgey.html. But that is broken link - a dead website. Unsure how that happened.... please make sure the citations you provide support the content you added.

Likewise in this dif, the content you added about strawberry allergies is not discussed at the link you cited here which is about almond butter.

Please make sure that the content you add, is supported by the citation you provide. Jytdog (talk) 16:49, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

"Reliable sources" generally, and specifically for content about health
All content in Wikipedia begins with sources, and the community has put a lot of work into thinking about what a "reliable source" is. Not everything on the internet is really useful.

Please read and follow WP:RS, which is the guideline for what a "reliable source" is in Wikipedia. That is the guideline that governs general content. Sources like "ehow" are really poor...

For content about health, the guideline is WP:MEDRS. We are really careful about sourcing for content about health, as there is a lot of bad content on the internet about health. In this dif on the Stawberry page, you added content about health. That source is not OK per MEDRS.

Really briefly, what MEDRS says, is that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note below. Jytdog (talk) 16:50, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Lots to learn!
I left you lots of notes above. Lots to learn, please don't be discouraged. Jytdog (talk) 16:51, 2 December 2016 (UTC)