User talk:Jpoysti

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Reliable Sources
Hi. Thanks for your edit to add material to Marsy's Law. I want to draw your attention to WP:RS. The source you used for the new material was a website that advocates for Marsy's Law that is probably self-published. A proper source is one that is not advocacy for or against it, but a neutral, fact-checked source. I changed the source to what I believe is a major newspaper, and that should take care of the problem. Just a pointer for the future. --David Tornheim (talk) 15:37, 7 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Hey David, thanks for that. I didn't realize that non-neutral sources were a no-no, will note that for the future. Oh and thanks for the warm welcome to Wikipedia :)
 * (Ps. not sure how to reply to your message so i'm writing it here. If i'm doing it wrong then please let me know)


 * You're welcome. You're not too far off!  :)   I have your talk page on my watchlist,so that's how I knew you responded.  So that's correct.  There is a way to notify others when you reply to them using a "ping", but you probably don't need to try that yet--it's a bit complicated to do it right.  Two things you want to do:
 * (1) Indent your response by adding a ":" before each paragraph. I have added them to your comment above to show you.  Click here to see the changes.  For each response, you add one more colon, so in my case, I added "::".
 * (2) Sign your responses. You do that by including " ~ " at the very end of your reply.  The wiki software will fill in the rest automatically when you post.  You can see what it will do with the "Show Preview".
 * Also where I said, click here, the here is called a "diff".  Everything you do on wikipedia has a record.  If you do something wrong, people can provide a "diff" to show you what you had changed to refer to the specific edit you had made that they are calling into question.  If you want to refer to a change someone else has made, you can use a "diff" for that purpose.  Creating diffs is somewhat tricky.  I can explain how that is done if you are interested.
 * --David Tornheim (talk) 19:36, 7 September 2018 (UTC)


 * awesome, thanks for all that info! I've seen diffs before, didn't realize that that's what they're called but now I'll know. I may look into diffs later when I have time, right now I'm just casually editing pages a little bit when there's additional info that I notice is missing but relevant.
 * thanks for all of your help! Jpoysti (talk) 19:51, 7 September 2018 (UTC)