User talk:Kgbroth

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Hello, Kgbroth, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Interstate 375 (Michigan). I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!  Imzadi 1979  →   03:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Care in editing
I noticed your edit to Interstate 375 (Michigan), and specifically, I noticed that the edit created some problems. When you insert new content, you need to take care how you insert it. When you placed content in the middle of an existing paragraph, look to see where the footnotes are already inserted. If the entire passage where you're making the insertion is cited to a single source, you'll need to insert a reference to that source before your addition. For instance, the following was all cited to a news article by John Gallagher:"In the 1940s and 1950s, the area was home to a community of African-American entrepreneurs and businesses that rivaled Harlem in New York City. Black Bottom was one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and at the time of freeway construction, it had wooden sewers and dilapidated buildings. The area, like Corktown to the west of downtown, was targeted by urban planners for urban renewal and infrastructure improvements in the 1950s and 1960s, which included the Chrysler Freeway and public housing projects." When you inserted:"In the 1950s and 1960s, many lower-class African-American residents lived in overcrowded and run-down housing in Black Bottom. These residents could not afford to maintain their homes because of their low income, leading outsiders to view the area as neglected and in need of updating and development." in between the sentences that had the effect of separating the first sentence from its source and attributing it to the new book source.

Speaking of the book source, can you supply the page or pages that you're citing within it to the footnote? If possible, we can also link to the book on Google Books.

Also, it is possible to name footnotes, which allows them to be reused. That way you don't have to insert the same meeting summary twice. Citing sources explains more about this concept.  Imzadi 1979  →   23:13, 14 November 2019 (UTC)